Amber Beckley
The Institute of Optics
Polarization apodization applications through stress-engineering: vortices, aberrations and you
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
12 – 12:30 PM
Goergen 101
Most interest in stress-birefringence concerns the reduction of its effects in optical systems. In stress-engineering, forces are introduced with the intention of increasing stress-birefringence and taking advantage of its phase retardance effects.
In this talk we present useful forms of stress-engineered optical elements. We then explore beam apodization using the distinct polarization distributions and phase effects of SEO elements, including the production of optical vortices. Recent work producing full Poincaré beams and aberration imprinting in the Stokes parameters of point spread functions will be discussed.
Bring your lunch at the talk; we will offer the dessert!
