Design, fabrication and testing of achromatic elliptical polarizer

• Published in: Optics express Vol. 25; no. 9; pp. 10355 - 10367
• Main Authors: Tu, Xingzhou, Jiang, Linan, Ibn-Elhaj, Mohammed, Pau, Stanley
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.05.2017

A method of designing achromatic elliptical polarizers using a combination of multiple birefringent waveplates is demonstrated. This approach has a simple geometric interpretation and simplifies the problem of designing an achromatic elliptical polarizer to find overlapping arcs on the Poincaré sphe...