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Four-wave plate composite polarization controller

Optics 2025-03-17 v1

Abstract

We theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel composite polarization controller. With our design, which comprises two half-wave plates and two quarter-wave plates the retardance and rotation can be changed continuously by simply rotating the half-wave plates. The idea is universal since any commercial half and quarter-wave plates may be used to achieve any desired polarization change.

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@article{arxiv.2503.11298,
  title  = {Four-wave plate composite polarization controller},
  author = {Hristina Hristova and Hristo Iliev and Ivayla Bozhinova and Andon Rangelov and Asen Pashov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.11298},
  year   = {2025}
}
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