Reference-free quantitative microscopic imaging of coherent arbitrary vectorial light beams

Abstract : Precise spatial characterization of vectorial beams is crucial for many advanced optical experiments, but challenging when wavefront and polarization features are involved together. Here we propose a reference-free method aimed at extracting the map of the complexamplitude components of any coherent beam at an optical-microscopy resolution. Our method exploits recent advances in ptychographic imaging approaches. We emphasize its versatility by reconstructing successfully various experimental vectorial beams including polarization and phase vortices, the exit field of a multicore fiber and a speckle pattern.