• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 4, Issue 5, B35 (2016)
Sichao Zhou1, Shiyi Wang2, Jian Chen1,3, Guanghao Rui4, and Qiwen Zhan1,*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Electro-Optics Graduate Program, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, Ohio 45469-2951, USA
  • 2Globalfoundries, 2070 Route 52, Hopewell Junction, New York 12533, USA
  • 3School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
  • 4Advanced Photonics Center, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.4.000B35 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Sichao Zhou, Shiyi Wang, Jian Chen, Guanghao Rui, Qiwen Zhan, "Creation of radially polarized optical fields with multiple controllable parameters using a vectorial optical field generator," Photonics Res. 4, B35 (2016) Copy Citation Text show less

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    A vectorial optical field generator (VOF-Gen) based on two reflective phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulators enables the creation of an arbitrary optical complex field. In this work, the capabilities of the VOF-Gen in terms of manipulating the spatial distributions of phase, amplitude, and polarization are experimentally demonstrated by generating a radially polarized optical field consisted of five annular rings, the focusing properties of which are also numerically studied with vectorial diffraction theory. By carefully adjusting the relative amplitude and phase between the adjacent rings, an optical needle field with purely longitudinal polarization can be produced in the focal region of a high numerical aperture lens. The versatile method presented in this work can be easily extended to the generation of a vectorial optical field with any desired complex distributions.
    JSLM4(x,y)=A0(x,y)sin(δ2(x,y)2)ei(δ2(x,y)2+δ3(x,y)2+π)(cos(δ3(x,y)2+π2)eiδ4(x,y)sin(δ3(x,y)2+π2)),(1)

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    Sichao Zhou, Shiyi Wang, Jian Chen, Guanghao Rui, Qiwen Zhan, "Creation of radially polarized optical fields with multiple controllable parameters using a vectorial optical field generator," Photonics Res. 4, B35 (2016)
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