Abstract

We report two new, to the best of our knowledge, methods to generate polarization gratings, whose basic cells are formed by sections that are orthogonally polarized. One of the methods employs a spatial filtering setup that modulates the diffraction orders in the Fourier domain of a Ronchi grating, with two orthogonal polarizations. In the second method, a binary phase modulation, generated by a liquid crystal device, is converted into orthogonal polarizations in different zones of an incident beam. The analysis of the generated polarization states is made at 1/4 of the Talbot distance of the generated gratings. The experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical description.

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