Publication: Anisotropic pure-phase plates for quality improvement of partially coherent, partially polarized beams
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2003-03
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From a theoretical point of view, the use of anisotropic pure-phase plates (APP) is considered in order to improve the quality parameter of certain partially coherent, partially polarized beams. It is shown that, to optimize the beam-quality parameter, the phases of the two Cartesian components of the field at the output of the APP plate should, be identical and should exhibit a quadratic dependence on the radial polar coordinate.
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© 2003 Optical Society of America.
The research leading to this paper was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología of Spain, project BFM2001-1356, within the framework of EUREKA project EU-2359. The authors also thank two anonymous referees for their suggestions that improved the content of this paper.
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