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OPTICS EXPRESS
卷 20, 期 13, 页码 14015-14029出版社
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014015
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- Science Foundation Ireland [07/IN.1/I906]
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [07/IN.1/I906] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
We show that, in order to attain complete polarization control across a beam, two spatially resolved variable retardations need to be introduced to the light beam. The orientation of the fast axes of the retarders must be linearly independent on the Poincare sphere if a fixed starting polarization state is used, and one of the retardations requires a range of 2 pi. We also present an experimental system capable of implementing this concept using two passes on spatial light modulators (SLMs). A third SLM pass can be added to control the absolute phase of the beam. Control of the spatial polarization and phase distribution of a beam has applications in high-NA microscopy, where these properties can be used to shape the focal field in three dimensions. We present some examples of such fields, both theoretically calculated using McCutchen's method and experimentally observed. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
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