TY - JOUR
T1 - Axially symmetric polarization converter made of patterned liquid crystal quarter wave plate
AU - Fan, Fan
AU - Du, Tao
AU - Srivastava, Abhishek Kumar
AU - Lu, Wang
AU - Chigrinov, Vladimir
AU - Kwok, Hoi Sing
PY - 2012/10/8
Y1 - 2012/10/8
N2 - We present a method to fabricate a radially and azimuthally polarized light converter by deploying a patterned liquid crystal (LC) quarter-wave plates (QWP). The patterned QWP has been fabricated by providing the axially symmetric alignment to the LC layer by mean of photo-alignment. When the left handed circularly (LHC) or right handed circularly (RHC) polarized light passes through these patterned QWPs, the emergent light becomes radially or azimuthally polarized. Moreover, the proposed polarization converters are characterized by the fast response time, thus could find application in various fast photonic devices.
AB - We present a method to fabricate a radially and azimuthally polarized light converter by deploying a patterned liquid crystal (LC) quarter-wave plates (QWP). The patterned QWP has been fabricated by providing the axially symmetric alignment to the LC layer by mean of photo-alignment. When the left handed circularly (LHC) or right handed circularly (RHC) polarized light passes through these patterned QWPs, the emergent light becomes radially or azimuthally polarized. Moreover, the proposed polarization converters are characterized by the fast response time, thus could find application in various fast photonic devices.
UR - https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000309955100007
UR - https://openalex.org/W2012220503
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84867298719
U2 - 10.1364/OE.20.023036
DO - 10.1364/OE.20.023036
M3 - Journal Article
C2 - 23188267
SN - 1094-4087
VL - 20
SP - 23036
EP - 23043
JO - Optics Express
JF - Optics Express
IS - 21
ER -