Transporting and focusing radially polarized laser beams

Steven Chase Tidwell; Dennis H. Ford; Wayne D. Kimura

doi:10.1117/12.57684

1 July 1992 Transporting and focusing radially polarized laser beams

Steven Chase Tidwell, Dennis H. Ford, Wayne D. Kimura

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 31, Issue 7, (July 1992). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.57684

Abstract

A radially polarized laser beam is useful for applications such as laser particle acceleration. The issues of transporting and focusing (with an axicon) a radially polarized beam that was generated in the laboratory are examined. Problems of preserving the polarization while directing the beam are solved by using a compound 90-deg-fold out-of-plane pair of mirrors. When focused by an axicon, the radially polarized beam produces a diffraction-free Bessel beam. The transverse intensity distribution agrees with theory.

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Steven Chase Tidwell, Dennis H. Ford, and Wayne D. Kimura "Transporting and focusing radially polarized laser beams," Optical Engineering 31(7), (1 July 1992). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.57684

Published: 1 July 1992

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