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Achromatic polarization rotator with tunable rotation angle

Optics 2019-10-04 v1 Applied Physics

Abstract

We theoretically suggest and experimentally demonstrate a broadband composite optical rotator that is capable of rotating the polarization plane of a linearly-polarized light at any chosen angle. The device is composed of an even number of half-wave plates rotated at specific angles with respect to their fast-polarization axes. The frequency bandwidth of the polarization rotator in principal increases with the number of half-wave plates. Here we experimentally examine the performance of rotators composed of two, four, six, eight and ten half-wave plates.

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@article{arxiv.1910.01352,
  title  = {Achromatic polarization rotator with tunable rotation angle},
  author = {Elena Stoyanova and Mouhamad Al-Mahmoud and Hristina Hristova and Andon Rangelov and Emiliya Dimova and Nikolay V. Vitanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01352},
  year   = {2019}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures

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