http://dspace-roma3.caspur.it:80 The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. 2013-05-22T20:36:23Z http://hdl.handle.net/2307/219 <Title>Generation and characterization of spirally polarized fields</Title> <Authors>Ramírez-Sánchez, Victoria; Piquero, Gemma; Santarsiero, Massimo</Authors> <Issue Date>2009-06-29</Issue Date> <Is part of>Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics</Is part of> <Volume>11</Volume> <Pages>085708</Pages> <Abstract>Recently introduced global parameters for describing the polarization of a beam are used to characterize spirally polarized fields, which include as particular cases azimuthally and radially polarized fields. Theoretical predictions about such global parameters are experimentally confirmed by generating beams with spirally polarized transverse patterns, by means of two different procedures.</Abstract> 2009-06-28T22:00:00Z