Broadband composite nonreciprocal polarization wave plates and optical isolators
Optics
2024-06-17 v1
Abstract
We provide a technique for a broadband nonreciprocal wave retarder whose quarter-wave plate phase retardation is the same in forward and backward directions. The system is built using a number of sequential nonreciprocal wave plates. The proposed device can also be utilized to create a broadband optical diode, which consists of two achromatic quarter-wave plates, one reciprocal and the other non-reciprocal, that are sandwiched between two polarizers aligned in parallel.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.06431,
title = {Broadband composite nonreciprocal polarization wave plates and optical isolators},
author = {Hayk L. Gevorgyan and Andon A. Rangelov and Nikolay V. Vitanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06431},
year = {2024}
}