• DocumentCode
    421547
  • Title

    Polarization transformations by engineering space-variant inhomogeneous media on subwavelength scale

  • Author

    Levy, Uriel ; Tsai, Chia-Ho ; Pang, Lin ; Fainman, Yeshaiahu

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., La Jolla, CA, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2004
  • Abstract
    Radially and azimuthally polarized beams are highly desired for many applications. We proposed to engineer such beams using space-variant inhomogeneous media (SVIM) on subwavelength scale. We conducted optical experiment providing such polarization states with high purity.
  • Keywords
    birefringence; inhomogeneous media; laser beams; light polarisation; optical retarders; optical rotation; polarization transformations; space-variant inhomogeneous media;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-777-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1360739