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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/KJOP.2014.25.3.150

Tunable Quarter-wave Plate Consisting of Two Phase Retarders and the Design of a Circular Polarizer  

Kim, Sang Youl (Department of Physics, Ajou University)
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Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.25, no.3, 2014 , pp. 150-154 More about this Journal
Abstract
The conditions under which a composite retarder consisting of two different retardation plates can be operated as a tunable quarter-wave plate are derived. The explicit expressions for the azimuthal angle of a linear polarizer and those of two retardation plates to generate circularly polarized light are presented as a function of retardation angles. Those expressions for the azimuthal angles derived using the Jones matrix formalism are verified as identical to the expressions derived from the analysis of the trajectory on a Poincar$\acute{e}$ sphere. A couple of examples are presented for generating circularly polarized light when two identical retardation plates are used.
Keywords
Tunable quarter-wave plate; Circular polarizer; Composite retarder; Poincar$\acute{e}$ sphere;
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