Editor's Note: To view a PDF version of the article, Click Here. The commercial introduction of wafer-based, nanofabrication techniques now makes it possible to create a new class of optical ...
Liquid crystal polarization gratings (LCPGs) are diffractive elements that provide near-100% diffraction for circularly polarized light. When layered with thin polarization-controlling liquid crystal ...
A scanning electron micrograph (right) of the three-waveguide polarization beam splitter, and the light intensity of the two polarization components (TE/TM). (Image: A*STAR) The manipulation of light ...
The pplarization beam splitter is a type of beam splitter. The function of a beam splitter is to split a beam of light into two (or one)beams. Polarizing beamsplitters are beamsplitters that are split ...