title: Anisotropic pure-phase plates for quality improvement of partially coherent, partially polarized beams.
abstract: From a theoretical point of view, the use of anisotropic pure-phase plates (APP) is considered in order to improve the quality parameter of certain partially coherent, partially polarized beams. It is shown that, to optimize the beam-quality parameter, the phases of the two Cartesian components of the field at the output of the APP plate should be identical and should exhibit a quadratic dependence on the radial polar coordinate.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Optica, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Rosario
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Martínez-Herrero
authors.forename: Pedro M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Mejías
authors.forename: Gemma
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Piquero