Uniformly elliptically-polarized vector optical fields

作者:Pan Yue*; Ren Zhi Cheng; Qian Sheng Xia; Gao Xu Zhen; Li Yongnan; Tu Chenghou; Wang Hui Tian
来源:Journal of Optics, 2015, 17(3): 035616.
DOI:10.1088/2040-8978/17/3/035616

摘要

We present a modified, more universal scheme for generating vector fields. Here we design in principle and experimentally generate a new kind of uniformly elliptically polarized vector field, which has the same ellipticity and sense of local elliptic polarization at any location and also has a flexibly designable distribution of orientation of the elliptic polarization. An introduced additional degree of freedom is used to flexibly change the ellipticity. In particular, the ellipticity and the orientation of polarization can be independently controlled by two parameters. This makes it easier to both control the spatial structure of the polarization and to engineer the focusing field.