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Polar POLICRYPS Diffractive Structures Generate Cylindrical Vector Beams

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arxiv 1509.07671 v1 pith:OTM24E5H submitted 2015-09-25 physics.optics cond-mat.soft

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Local shaping of the polarization state of a light beam is appealing for a number of applications. This can be achieved by employing devices containing birefringent materials. In this article, we present one such device that permits one to convert a uniformly circularly polarized beam into a cylindrical vector beam (CVB). This device has been fabricated by exploiting the POLICRYPS photocuring technique. It is a liquid-crystal-based optical diffraction grating featuring polar symmetry of the director alignment. We have characterized the resulting CVB profile and polarization for the cases of left and right circularly polarized incoming beams.

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