A Novel Beamsplitter for Optical Polarization State Interferometry
- 1 September 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Modern Optics
- Vol. 40 (9) , 1795-1799
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09500349314551811
Abstract
We propose an evanescent-field optical beamsplitter, ideal for experiments in polarization state interferometry. It splits an incident wave into two beams, both being in the same polarization state, related to the incident state by a predetermined SU(2) operation on the Poincaré sphere. The operational characteristics of such beamsplitters are described.Keywords
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