Polarization holography for vortex retarders recording: laboratory demonstration
| Autor: | Serge Habraken, Pierre Piron, Dimitri Mawet, Pascal Blain, Marc Décultot |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Birefringence
Common-path interferometer Materials science business.industry Holography Physics::Optics Holographic interferometry Retarder Polarization (waves) 01 natural sciences Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Vortex law.invention 010309 optics Optics law Optical recording 0103 physical sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering 010306 general physics business Engineering (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Applied Optics. 54:4765 |
| ISSN: | 2155-3165 1559-128X |
| Popis: | This paper will present a prototype of the first set of vortex retarders made of liquid crystal polymers recorded by polarization holography. Vortex retarders are birefringent plates characterized by a rotation of their fast axis. Liquid crystals possess birefringent properties and they are locally orientable. Their orientation is defined by the perpendicular to the local orientation of the recording field. Polarization holography is a purely optical recording method. It is based on the superimposition of coherent and differently polarized beams. It is used to shape the electric field pattern to enable the recording of vortex retarders. The paper details the mathematical model of the superimposition process. The recording setup is exposed; it is characterized by a nearly common path interferometer. Two sets of measurements allowing the prediction of the retarder’s features are presented and compared. Finally, the experimentally recorded retarder is shown, its characteristics are investigated and compared to the predicted ones. |
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