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Photonics Research, Volume. 4, Issue 5, B35(2016)

Creation of radially polarized optical fields with multiple controllable parameters using a vectorial optical field generator

Sichao Zhou¹, Shiyi Wang², Jian Chen^1,3, Guanghao Rui⁴, and Qiwen Zhan^1、*

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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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Special Issue: OPTICAL VORTICES AND VECTOR BEAMS

Received: Apr. 28, 2016

Accepted: --

Published Online: Nov. 23, 2016

The Author Email: Qiwen Zhan (qzhan1@udayton.edu)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.4.000B35

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