• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 47, Issue 8, 818007 (2018)
Huang Chunhui* and Zhai Sheng
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    DOI: 10.3788/irla201847.0818007 Cite this Article
    Huang Chunhui, Zhai Sheng. Polarization characteristics of corner cube reflectors by Stokes parameters[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2018, 47(8): 818007 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The cube corner reflectors (CCR) have the depolarization effect, which will affect the efficiency of the adjust-free solid state laser, and can also be applied to the beam combination. Both of them require accurate polarization characteristics. The Mueller matrices of 6 transmission light paths of the cube corner were deduced by using analytic geometry and ray tracing. To improve the experiment, a scheme of dynamic detection of Stokes parameter was designed to get high precision data. The error rate is 4.470% and is within a reasonable range. This study have meaning for eliminating the depolarization effect of cube corner, improving the performance of laser and improving the efficiency of beam combination.
    Huang Chunhui, Zhai Sheng. Polarization characteristics of corner cube reflectors by Stokes parameters[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2018, 47(8): 818007
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