Study on compact polarized light beam splitting system for generating sodium guidestars constellation
| Autor: | Qi Bian, Jun-Wei Zuo, Qinjun Peng, Yong Bo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Physics
Linear polarization business.industry Beam splitting Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials law.invention Optics Amplitude law Power ratio Reflection (physics) Physics::Accelerator Physics Electrical and Electronic Engineering Adaptive optics business Beam splitter Constellation |
| Zdroj: | Optics & Laser Technology. 146:107560 |
| ISSN: | 0030-3992 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.optlastec.2021.107560 |
| Popis: | A simple and compact polarized light beam splitting system is developed to split one sodium laser beam into multiple beamlets. Here, a polarizing beam splitter and a high reflection mirror is creatively synthesized to be one mirror as the special splitter-and-coupler, whose operation principle is introduced in detail. A Jones matrix model is utilized for theoretical analysis of the amplitude variation and energy distribution of the splitting beamlets. As a result, four yellow beamlets with the power ratio of 1:1:1:1 and orthogonally linearly polarized state are achieved within only 0.002 m2 working area. This approach opens up a new way to generate sodium guidestars constellation for the extended-field-of-view multi-conjugate adaptive optics telescopes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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