Liquid crystal retarder modulation for generating real time non-uniformly polarized beams

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 572-577

  Xu, Kai ^a   Yang, Yanfang ^a   He, Ying ^a   Han, Xiaohong ^a   Li, Chunfang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTALS; REAL VARIABLES;

APPLIED VOLTAGES; ELLIPTICAL POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL VARIABLE RETARDERS; LOCAL POLARIZATION; NONUNIFORM; PHASE RETARDATION; POLARIZED BEAMS; RADIALLY POLARIZED BEAM; REAL TIME; SPATIAL POSITIONS; STOKES PARAMETERS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 77949555017     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.27.000572     Document Type: Article

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