Design, fabrication, and characterization of farm-birefringent multilayer polarizing beam splitter

被引：132

作者：

Tyan, RC ^{[1
]}

Salvekar, AA ^{[1
]}

Chou, HP ^{[1
]}

Cheng, CC ^{[1
]}

Scherer, A ^{[1
]}

Sun, PC ^{[1
]}

Xu, F ^{[1
]}

Fainman, Y ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] CALTECH,DEPT ELECT ENGN,PASADENA,CA 91125

来源：

JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION | 1997年 / 14卷 / 07期

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D O I：

10.1364/JOSAA.14.001627

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

Polarizing beam splitters that use the anisotropic spectral reflectivity (ASR) characteristic of high-spatial-frequency multilayer binary gratings have been designed, fabricated, and characterized. Using the ASR effect with rigorous coupled-wave analysis, we design an optical element that is transparent for TM polarization and reflective for TE polarization at an arbitrary incidence angle and operational wavelength. The experiments with the fabricated element demonstrate a high efficiency (>97%), with polarization extinction ratios higher than 220:1 at a wavelength of 1.523 mu m over a 20 degrees angular bandwidth by means of the ASR characteristics of the device. These ASR devices combine many useful characteristics, such as compactness, low insertion loss, high efficiency, and broad angular and spectral bandwidth operations. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.

引用

页码：1627 / 1636

页数：10

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