Tunable bandwidth optical rotator

2015/02/03 by Emiliya Dimova, Dimova, Emiliya, Andon A. Rangelov +3
Engineering · #FOS: Physical sciences #Optical Network Technologies #Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry #Optics (physics.optics) #Photonic and Optical Devices

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1502.00747

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Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel type of polarization rotator which is capable of rotating the polarization plane of a linearly polarized light at any desired angle in either broad or narrow spectral bandwidth. The rotator comprises an array of standard half-wave plates rotated at specific angles with respect to their fast-polarization axes. The performance of the rotator depends on the number of individual half-wave plates and in this paper we experimentally investigate the performance of two composite rotators comprising six and ten half-wave plates.

Citations

• Achromatic Combinations of Half-Wave Plates

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