Depolarization mechanism and compensation scheme of radially polarized beams

Ce Yang; Hongpan Peng; Meng Chen; Ning Ma; Yaoyao Xue; Xinbiao Du; Xie Zhang

doi:10.3788/IRLA20200038

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