• DocumentCode
    3752684
  • Title

    An air-gap wire-grid polarizer with high optical performance in the visible region

  • Author

    Mizuki Shinkawa;Yasuhiro Satoh;Atsushi Sakai

  • Author_Institution
    Ricoh Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Ricoh Company, Ltd. 16-1 Shinei-cho, Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama, 224-0035 Japan
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A novel wire-grid (WG) polarizer with air gaps in nanowires is proposed, and its optical characteristics were estimated by computational calculation. Transmittance of transverse-electric polarized light by the WG polarizer is low enough in the visible region (i.e., wavelengths of 450-650 nm). Extinction ratio of the proposed WG polarizer is increased 20% in comparison with that of a standard polarizer.
  • Keywords
    "Wires","Air gaps","Optical polarization","Optical imaging","Optical sensors","Standards","Optical device fabrication"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microoptics Conference (MOC), 2015 20th
  • Print_ISBN
    978-4-8634-8487-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MOC.2015.7416464
  • Filename
    7416464