title: On the control of the spatial orientation of the transverse profile of a light beam.
abstract: A first-order optical system (represented by its 4x4 ABCD matrix) is given in order to obtain a beam that preserves its spatial orientation of the transverse profile under free propagation from a beam with rotating irradiance distribution in free space. Within the formalism of the second-order irradiance moments, this transverse orientation is analyzed in terms of the evolution of the principal axes of the field irradiance distribution. It is shown that the spatial profile of the beam emerging from the proposed optical system does not rotate when light freely propagates. The improvement of the joint near-field and far-field beam spread product at the output of this optical system is also studied.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Martínez-Herrero
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mejías