Tilted bilayer membranes as simple transmission quarter-wave retardation plates |
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Authors: | Azzam R M Mahmoud F A |
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Affiliation: | Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans, Lakefront, Louisiana 70148, USA. razzam@uno.edu |
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Abstract: | A tilted bilayer membrane, which consists of two thin films of transparent optically isotropic materials of different refractive indices, can function as a transmission quarter-wave retarder (QWR) at a high angle of incidence. A specific design using a cryolite-Si membrane in the infrared is presented, and its tolerances to small shifts of wavelength, incidence angle, and film thickness errors are discussed. Some designs provide a dual QWR in transmission and reflection. Such devices provide simple linear-to-circular (and circular-to-linear) polarization transformers. Bilayer eighth-wave retarders without diattenuation are also introduced. |
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