title: Global beam shaping with nonuniformly polarized beams: a proposal.
abstract: A procedure for global beam shaping by modifying some global spatial parameters characteristic of the beam is proposed. This method is based on the generation of a nonuniformly polarized beam using a Mach-Zehnder system with two suitably shaped intensity transmittances and orthogonal linear polarizers. The changes in beam quality and kurtosis parameters after a linear polarizer placed at the output of the system are investigated.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Optica, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Compultense, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ramírez-Sánchez
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Piquero