Balancing polarization aberrations in crossed fold mirrors

Wai Sze Tiffany Lam; Russell Chipman

doi:10.1364/AO.54.003236

Balancing polarization aberrations in crossed fold mirrors

Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Russell Chipman

Optical Sciences

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Abstract

The polarization aberrations of a fold mirror can be compensated by orienting a second fold mirror's p-polarization with the first mirror's s-polarization. This crossed-mirror configuration compensates the polarization for a single angle to zero and leaves a linear variation of diattenuation and retardance for a spherical wavefront. Two sets of crossed fold mirrors when properly oriented compensate the remaining linear variation and leave a much reduced quadratic variation in a large compensated field of view.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3236-3245
Number of pages	10
Journal	Applied optics
Volume	54
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.54.003236
State	Published - Apr 20 2015

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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