We present a device based on liquid crystal and via Pancharatnam-Berry phase to generate Poincare beams by the coherent collinear superposition of two Free-Form Dark Hollow (FFDH) beams. We generate beams with spatially-variable polarization encoded on their cross section showing disclinations in the azimuth orientation and mappings of the Poincare sphere onto the transverse mode. We report generated beams characterized by nonuniform rotation rate of the local polarization azimuth in different polarization configurations, radial and azimuthal, lemon and star disclinations, and other richer and complex higher-order disclinations, by using tailored space-varying-axis plates based on liquid crystals.
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