Piquero Sanz, Gemma MaríaMartínez Herrero, María RosarioMejías Arias, Pedro MiguelRamírez Sánchez, Victoria2023-06-202023-06-202008-04-150030-401810.1016/j.optcom.2007.12.023https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50871©2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This work has been supported by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia of Spain, under project FIS2004-1900, and by the Universidad Complutense-Comunidad de Madrid, project No. 910335 (2007). We thank Dr. Julio Serna for his valuable suggestions.Several global parameters are proposed to characterize the radial and azimuthal polarization content of non-uniformly totally polarized beams. Such figures of merit can be written and measured in terms of two Stokes parameters, and also from the data at the output of either a radial or an azimuthal dichroic polarizer, integrated throughout the beam profile. The measurability of the proposed parameters has also been experimentally checked.engjournal articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2007.12.023http://www.sciencedirect.com/open access535Semiconductor-LaserGenerationLightBirefringenceCrystalÓptica (Física)2209.19 Óptica Física