Abstract
We consider the shaping of electromagnetic beams with spatially variable form-birefringent diffractive elements, showing that diffraction efficiencies exceeding Wyrowski's upper bounds for scalar fields are possible. Non-trivial designs with 100% efficiency are presented.
© 2000 Optical Society of America
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