In this paper, the simple, reliable and efficient fabrication technology of spiral varying retarder (SVR) on Iceland spar for generating radially and azimuthally polarized beams from linearly polarized Gaussian beam for λ = 632.8 nm is shown. The SVR which consists of 20 sectors was made by laser-induced microplasma processing on plate area of 10 × 10 mm 2 in less than 7 minutes. When placing the SVR between two quarter wave plates with orthogonal fast axes the registration of typical images of intensity distribution in the far field in four analyzer positions (0°, 45°, 90°, 135°) confirmed the SVR's ability to generate radially polarized vector optical field. It was also shown that the placing of a half-wave plate, the fast axis of which is oriented at 45°relative to the direction of x axis, allows to create an azimuthally polarized vector optical field.
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