Photonic crystal polarizers and polarizing beam splitters

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Other literature type 01 Jan 2003Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2003Publisher:OSAJournal:Frontiers in Optics

Authors: Solli, D. R.; McCormick, C. F.; Chiao, R. Y.; Hickmann, J. M.;

doi: 10.1364/fio.2003.tho2 , 10.1063/1.1574174 , 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0309048

arXiv: cond-mat/0309048

Photonic crystal polarizers and polarizing beam splitters

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Abstract

We have experimentally demonstrated polarizers and polarizing beam splitters based on microwave-scale two-dimensional photonic crystals. Using polarized microwaves within certain frequency bands, we have observed a squared-sinusoid (Malus) transmission law when using the photonic crystal as a polarizer. The photonic crystal also functions as a polarizing beamsplitter; in this configuration it can be engineered to split incident polarizations in either order and in any direction, making it more versatile than conventional, Brewster-angle beamsplitters.

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University of California, Berkeley
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Centro Universitário da Cidade
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Federal University of Alagoas
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Condensed Matter (cond-mat), FOS: Physical sciences, Condensed Matter

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