Hollow Waveguide Arrays as Quarter- and Half-Wave Plates

Autor: Stefan Belle, Stefan F. Helfert, Ralf Hellmann
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol 14, Iss 2, Pp 1-7 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1943-0655
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2022.3160878
Popis: We present hollow waveguide arrays acting like quarter- and half-wave plates. Approximately 2000 × 2500 individual rectangular hollow waveguides filled with air and surrounded by a gold cladding form the basis of the wave plates. The hollow waveguides fabricated by combining femtosecond 3D direct laser writing with electroplating have sub-micron dimensions of less than 500 nm in the cladding area. Both wave plates show the characteristic properties of quarter- and half-wave plates converting a linear polarized input field into a circular (quarter-wave plate) and a linear 180 $^\circ$ phase shifted polarized output field (half-wave plate). This is confirmed experimentally by measuring the angle-dependent phase shift, the Stokes vectors and polarization ellipses for both wave plates.
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