Electrically Controllable Polarization Element

Chih Jen Yu; Cheng Min Hsieh

doi:10.1109/LPT.2016.2514840

Electrically Controllable Polarization Element

Chih Jen Yu^*, Cheng Min Hsieh

^*Corresponding author for this work

Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering

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Abstract

This letter proposes an optical setup that is equivalent to an electrically controllable polarization element (ECPE). The principal axis of the ECPE can be changed by applying an electric signal on an electro-optic device of this setup. This ECPE can be applied for rotating a linear polarizer or a linear phase retarder with arbitrary phase retardation and can be operated at much higher rotation speed than the mechanical rotation. In contrast, the typical rotation speed of a mechanically rotating polarization element is ∼ 100 Hz. The highest rotation speed of the ECPE is determined by the highest modulation frequency at which an electro-optic device can be correctly operated, which can range across several hertz to 300 kHz.

Original language	English
Article number	7372414
Pages (from-to)	1229-1232
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	28
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2016.2514840
State	Published - 01 06 2016

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Electro-optic devices
optical modulation
optical polarization

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