Polarizing beam splitter cube for circularly and elliptically polarized light

Sawyer Miller; Xingzhou Tu; Linan Jiang; Stanley Pau

doi:10.1364/OE.27.016258

Polarizing beam splitter cube for circularly and elliptically polarized light

Sawyer Miller, Xingzhou Tu, Linan Jiang, Stanley Pau

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A method of designing an arbitrary polarizing beam splitter (PBS) cube using multiple layers of thin-film liquid crystal polymer is demonstrated. This methodology utilizes cholesteric phase liquid crystal polymer (Ch-LCP) to transmit one handedness of elliptically polarized light and reflect the orthogonal state when unpolarized light is incident. Using additional nematic liquid crystal polymer layers, the polarization state for the transmitted and reflected light can be controlled and output to any two orthogonal states represented on the Poincaré sphere. Two cubes are designed, fabricated, tested, and compared with theory. One cube is constructed with a single layer of Ch-LCP, and another cube is constructed with a layer of Ch-LCP and an additional nematic liquid crystal polymer layer.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	16258-16270
Number of pages	13
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	27
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.016258
State	Published - 2019

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Polarizing beam splitter cube for circularly and elliptically polarized light

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