Piquero Sanz, Gemma MaríaMonroy, L.Santarsiero, MassimoAlonzo, M.González de Sande, Juan Carlos2023-06-172023-06-172018-062040-897810.1088/2040-8986/aabdadhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12166© 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd. This work has been partially supported by Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad under project FIS2016-75147.A simple optical system is proposed to generate full-Poincare beams (FPBs), i.e. beams presenting all possible states of (total) polarization across their transverse section. The method consists in focusing a uniformly polarized laser beam onto a uniaxial crystal having its optic axis parallel to the propagation axis of the impinging beam. A simple approximated model is used to obtain the analytical expression of the beam polarization at the output of the crystal. The output beam is then proved to be a FPB. By changing the polarization state of the input field, full-Poincare beams are still obtained, but presenting different distributions of the polarization state across the beam section. Experimental results are reported, showing an excellent agreement with the theoretical predictions.engjournal articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/aabdadhttp://iopscience.iop.orgopen access535Nonuniformly polarized beamsCylindrical vector beamsAnisotropic crystalsOptical orticesGenerationPropagationLightPolarimetrySphereStateÓptica (Física)2209.19 Óptica Física