New paper published in Applied Optics with a technique to encode high-order cylindrically polarized beams
We published a new paper in Applied Optics, entitled «Encoding high-order cylindrically polarized light beams«. Here we present a setup for the experimental production of cylindrically polarized beams, as well as other variations of polarized light beams. The optical system uses a single transmissive phase-only SLM, which is used to apply different spatial phase modulation to two output collinear R and L circularly polarized components. Different cylindrically polarized light beams can be obtained by applying different phase shifts to these two circularly polarized components.
We made this work in collaboration with Prof. Jeffrey A. Davis and Prof. Don M. Cottrell, our friends at San Diego State University, and Ramiro Donoso, our friend at Universidad de La Frontera, in Temuco.