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Published on: August 12, 2013
Anisotropic pure-phase plates for quality improvement of partially coherent, partially polarized beams
Rosario Martínez-Herrero1, Pedro M Mejías, Gemma Piquero
1Departamento de Optica, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
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.

