TY - JOUR
T1 - Arbitrary state of polarization with customized degree of polarization generator
AU - Lizana, Angel
AU - Estévez, Irene
AU - Torres-Ruiz, Fabián A.
AU - Peinado, Alba
AU - Ramirez, Claudio
AU - Campos, Juan
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - © 2015 Optical Society of America. An optical setup able to generate arbitrary states of polarization (SOPs) with customized degree of polarization is presented in this Letter. Compared with the few alternatives existing in literature, it presents an easy-to-build optical setup and leads to a superior performance. In fact, experimental results are presented, providing an accurate control for the generation of SOPs (maximum error of 1.7% and 3.3% for ellipticity and azimuth, respectively) as well as for the associated degree of polarization (full experimental variation from 1 up to 0.003, with a 1.7% maximum error). The system proposed may be useful for different applications, for example, for polarimeters testing, speckle metrology, and biological applications.
AB - © 2015 Optical Society of America. An optical setup able to generate arbitrary states of polarization (SOPs) with customized degree of polarization is presented in this Letter. Compared with the few alternatives existing in literature, it presents an easy-to-build optical setup and leads to a superior performance. In fact, experimental results are presented, providing an accurate control for the generation of SOPs (maximum error of 1.7% and 3.3% for ellipticity and azimuth, respectively) as well as for the associated degree of polarization (full experimental variation from 1 up to 0.003, with a 1.7% maximum error). The system proposed may be useful for different applications, for example, for polarimeters testing, speckle metrology, and biological applications.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.40.003790
DO - https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.40.003790
M3 - Article
VL - 40
SP - 3790
EP - 3793
JO - Optics Letters
JF - Optics Letters
SN - 0146-9592
ER -