This folder contains the files which were used in the production of the paper:

"Achromatic vector vortex beams from a glass cone"

N. Radwell, R.D. Hawley, J.G. Goette and S. Franke-Arnold

Published in: Nature Communications – Accepted November 2015

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The files are split into folders as follows:

Final Paper - 	Contains the manuscript files which generated the final review version of the 		paper.
		The LaTeX file, figures, bibtex file and compiled PDF are present.

Figure2 Files - Contains all of the code which produce the results in figure 2 as 				follows:

		Figure 2 was generated using a computer simulation using Equation (5) from 			the manuscript and plotting the polarisation ellipse as outlined in the 			Supplementary Note 1. The computer simulation was written in LabVIEW 2014 and 		is contained within the .llb file as 'Theory_plotter.vi'.

Figure4 Files - Contains all of the data and code which produce the results in figure 4 as 			follows:

		The folder is split into sub-folders which relate to the sub-figures. The 			'structured_Polarisation.llb' file is a labview library with the code to 			reproduce the figures. To analyse a set of data, within this library there is 		a 'Data_Plotter.vi' file which takes raw data and converts to a polarisation 			ellipse image as outlined in Supplementary Note 1. The raw data is included 			in a sub folder and the images titled 'H.png', 'V.png' are the raw images for 		that base (the bases are outlined in Supplementary Note 1). Pointing the 			'Data_Plotter.vi' program to those folders will produce the images seen in 			the paper.
		This code also incorporates the Mueller matrix compensation detailed in 			Supplementary Note 2. This is done by directing 'Data_plotter.vi' to the 			correct Mueller Matrix, which is included as 'Mueller_Calc_NewNorm.csv' which 		has been calculated by the excel spreadsheet 'Mueller_Calc.xlsm'.
		The theory images were produced following the procedure outlined for Figure2 			Files above.

Figure5 Files - Contains all of the data and code which produce the results in figure 5 as 			follows:

		The sub-parts of the figure are organised into their own folders, with (a) 			simply containing the raw data image, and a crop of it.
		Parts (b) and (c) were produced by the same method outlined in Figure4 Files 			above.


Supp. Mat.    - Contains the manuscript files which generated the final version of the 		supplementary material.
		The LaTeX file, figures and compiled PDF are present.