• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 3, Issue 4, 177 (2015)
Emiliya Dimova1, Andon Rangelov2、3、*, and Elica Kyoseva3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigradsko Chaussée, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 2Department of Physics, Sofia University, 5 James Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 33Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 8 Somapah Road,487372 Singapore, Singapore
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.3.000177 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Emiliya Dimova, Andon Rangelov, Elica Kyoseva. Tunable bandwidth optical rotator[J]. Photonics Research, 2015, 3(4): 177 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel type of polarization rotator that 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 6 and 10 half-wave plates.
    Jθ(φ)=[cos(φ/2)isin(φ/2)e2iθisin(φ/2)e2iθcos(φ/2)],(1)

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    J(N)=JθN(φ)JθN1(φ)Jθ1(φ).(2)

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    BB: [φkJ(N)]φ=π=0(k=1,2,,N12),(3a)

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    NB:[φkJ(N)]φ=2π=0(k=1,2,,N12).(3b)

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    Emiliya Dimova, Andon Rangelov, Elica Kyoseva. Tunable bandwidth optical rotator[J]. Photonics Research, 2015, 3(4): 177
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