Publication: Beam quality of partially polarized beams propagating through lenslike birefringent elements
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1999-11
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Movilla Serrano, Jesús María
Martínez Herrero, Rosario
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Optical Society of America
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Changes generated by lenslike birefringent elements on the beam-quality parameter of partially polarized beams are investigated. Analytical expressions for the beam-quality gain at the output of such systems are given in terms of the second-order intensity moments of the field. Explicit conditions to improve and optimize the beam-quality parameter after propagation through these birefringent transmittances are also shown.
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© 1999 Optical Society of America.
This work was supported by the Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología of Spain under project PB97-0295.
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