Polarizing beam splitter cube for circularly and elliptically polarized light
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Univ Arizona, James C Wyant Coll Opt SciIssue Date
2019-05-27
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OPTICAL SOC AMERCitation
Miller, S., Tu, X., Jiang, L., & Pau, S. (2019). Polarizing beam splitter cube for circularly and elliptically polarized light. Optics express, 27(11), 16258-16270.Journal
OPTICS EXPRESSRights
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
A method of designing an arbitrary polarizing beam splitter (PBS) cube using multiple layers of thin-film liquid crystal polymer is demonstrated. This methodology utilizes cholesteric phase liquid crystal polymer (Ch-LCP) to transmit one handedness of elliptically polarized light and reflect the orthogonal state when unpolarized light is incident. Using additional nematic liquid crystal polymer layers, the polarization state for the transmitted and reflected light can be controlled and output to any two orthogonal states represented on the Poincarte sphere. Two cubes are designed, fabricated, tested, and compared with theory. One cube is constructed with a single layer of Ch-LCP, and another cube is constructed with a layer of Ch-LCP and an additional nematic liquid crystal polymer layer.Note
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1094-4087PubMed ID
31163806Version
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National Science Foundation (NSF) [1607358]ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1364/OE.27.016258
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