Photonic crystal polarizers and polarizing beam splitters
Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We have experimentally demonstrated polarizers and polarizing beam splitters based on microwave-scale two-dimensional photonic crystals. Using polarized microwaves within certain frequency bands, we have observed a squared-sinusoid (Malus) transmission law when using the photonic crystal as a polarizer. The photonic crystal also functions as a polarizing beamsplitter; in this configuration it can be engineered to split incident polarizations in either order, making it more versatile than conventional, Brewster-angle beamsplitters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0309048,
title = {Photonic crystal polarizers and polarizing beam splitters},
author = {D. R. Solli and C. F. McCormick and R. Y. Chiao and J. M. Hickmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0309048},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures, published Journal Applied Physics 93, 9429 (2003)