title: Polarized pseudonondiffracting beams generated by polarization-selective diffractive phase elements.
abstract: The concept and the generation of polarized pseudonondiffracting beams (PNDB's) from polarization-selective diffractive phase elements (DPE's) are presented for what we believe is the first time in a monochromatic illuminating system. The polarized PNDB's behave as segmented almost constant axial-intensity distributions with individual different polarization states in different segments. The pure polarization state in each segment can be arbitrarily preset. The design of polarization-selective DPE's is achieved with the use of the conjugate-gradient method. The simulation results show that the DPE's we designed can successfully implement the desired polarization modulation. Furthermore the PNDB's characteristics of axial-intensity uniformity and beamlike shape are well achieved with the DPE's we designed.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, PO Box 603, Beijing 100080, China. guby@aphy.iphy.ac.cn
authors.forename: B Z
authors.initials: BZ
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang