Publication: Generation and characterization of spirally polarized fields
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2009-08
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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.
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© 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.
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