Generation of cylindrical vector beams with few-mode fibers excited by Laguerre–Gaussian beams
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2004-07-01
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Source Title
Optics Communications
Print ISSN
0030-4018
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1873-0310
Publisher
Elsevier
Volume
237
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1-3
Pages
89 - 95
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English
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Abstract
We propose a novel method to efficiently produce light beams with radial, azimuthal, and hybrid polarization, through a few-mode fiber excited by a Laguerre–Gaussian beam. With different input polarization we can selectively excite different combinations of modes from the LP11 group. We propose to show how to transform the output beam into a cylindrical vector beam in free-space through various polarization transformations.