Piquero Sanz, Gemma MaríaRamírez Sánchez, VictoriaSantarsiero, Massimo2023-06-202023-06-202009-081464-425810.1088/1464-4258/11/8/085708https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44019© 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd. This work has been supported by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia of Spain, project FIS2007-63396, and project CCG07-UCM/ESP-3070. M Santarsiero wishes to thank R Martínez-Herrero, PMejías, J Serna, G Piquero and V Ramírez-Sánchez for their kind hospitality during his stay at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.Recently introduced global parameters for describing the polarization of a beam are used to characterize spirally polarized fields, which include as particular cases azimuthally and radially polarized fields. Theoretical predictions about such global parameters are experimentally confirmed by generating beams with spirally polarized transverse patterns, by means of two different procedures.engjournal articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1464-4258/11/8/085708http://iopscience.iop.org/open access535Cylindrical-Vector BeamsAxially-Symmetric PolarizationRadial PolarizationGaussian BeamsLight FieldsLaser-BeamsParametersConvertersPlateModeÓptica (Física)2209.19 Óptica Física