Talbot effect analysis for periodic inhomogeneous polarization gratings

Teresa Cerdà; Ulises Ruiz; Victor Arrizon

doi:10.1117/12.2322317

14 September 2018 Talbot effect analysis for periodic inhomogeneous polarization gratings

Teresa Cerdà, Ulises Ruiz , Victor Arrizon

Proceedings Volume 10744, Laser Beam Shaping XVIII; 1074412 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2322317
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2018, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The interesting propagation properties of periodical gratings have been widely studied in the last decades. A special characteristic involving periodical structures is the self-imaging, in free propagation. Commonly the Talbot effect only consider the scalar nature of the fields, however the vectorial nature of the fields also plays an important role in free propagation. In this work, we study theoretically and experimentally the free propagation at fractional Talbot distances of inhomogeneous polarization periodical gratings, which are characterized by orthogonal polarization states. We found that the polarization states change in a peculiar way at different planes. We also generate some particular polarization gratings by means of a spatial light modulator and demonstrate that the theoretical and experimental results are in good agreement.

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Teresa Cerdà, Ulises Ruiz , and Victor Arrizon "Talbot effect analysis for periodic inhomogeneous polarization gratings", Proc. SPIE 10744, Laser Beam Shaping XVIII, 1074412 (14 September 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2322317

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