Nonlinear frequency converters as sources and detectors of polarized light with linear polarization degree of 10-9

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitri Y. Paraschuk ◽  
N. P. Zaitseva ◽  
Nikolay I. Zheludev
Keyword(s):  
Linear Polarization ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Polarization Degree ◽  
Nonlinear Frequency ◽  
Frequency Converters

Anisotropy of the Porous Silicon Photoluminescence

1996 ◽  
Vol 452 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Polisski ◽  
B. Averboukh ◽  
D. Kovalev ◽  
F. Koch
Keyword(s):  
Porous Silicon ◽  
Memory Effect ◽  
Linear Polarization ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Optical Excitation ◽  
Polarization Degree ◽  
Porous Si ◽  
Si Substrate ◽  
Plane Distribution

AbstractPolarization memory effect in the porous Si photoluminescence is studied. The anisotropy of the linear polarization degree is found in the samples etched with polarized light-assistance. The effect is explained by the anisotropie in plane distribution of the elongated Si crystallites. Under resonant optical excitation four-fold anisotropy of the photoluminescence polarization, linked to the crystalline axes of the bulk Si substrate, is observed.

Comparison of linear polarization degree in healthy and wounded rat skin

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha S. Ribeiro ◽  
Anderson Z. Freitas ◽  
Daniela F. Silva ◽  
Denise M. Zezell ◽  
Cleusa M. R. Pellegrini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Linear Polarization ◽  
Polarization Degree ◽  
Rat Skin

scholarly journals Polarization perception in humans: on the origin of and relationship between Maxwell’s spot and Haidinger’s brushes

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary P. Misson ◽  
Shelby E. Temple ◽  
Stephen J. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Linear Polarization ◽  
Light Absorption ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Retinal Images ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
Differential Absorption ◽  
Model Simulations ◽  
Eye Disorders ◽  
Absorption Of Light ◽  
Linearly Polarized

AbstractUnder specific conditions of illumination and polarization, differential absorption of light by macular pigments is perceived as the entoptic phenomena of Maxwell’s spot (MS) or Haidinger’s brushes (HB). To simulate MS and HB, an existing computational model of polarization-dependent properties of the human macula was extended by incorporating neuronal adaptation to stabilized retinal images. The model predicted that polarized light modifies the appearance of MS leading to the perception of a novel phenomenon. The model also predicted a correlation between the observed diameters of MS and HB. Predictions were tested psychophysically in human observers, whose measured differences in the diameters of each entoptic phenomenon generated with depolarized and linearly polarized light were consistent with the model simulations. These findings support a common origin of each phenomenon, and are relevant to the clinical use of polarization stimuli in detecting and monitoring human eye disorders, including macular degeneration. We conclude: (i) MS and HB both result from differential light absorption through a radial diattenuator, compatible with the arrangement of macular pigments in Henle fibres; (ii) the morphology of MS is dependent on the degree of linear polarization; (iii) perceptual differences between MS and HB result from different states of neural adaptation.

scholarly journals Interstellar Circular Polarization and the Composition of Interstellar Dust

1973 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 161-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Circular Polarization ◽  
Linear Polarization ◽  
Interstellar Dust ◽  
Principal Axis ◽  
Complex Refractive Index ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Position Angle ◽  
Optical Observations ◽  
Small Component ◽  
Linearly Polarized

This paper shows that optical observations of circular polarization produced by aligned interstellar grains could yield valuable information about the grain material. The interstellar medium is known to be linearly dichroic from observations of interstellar linear polarization; many different grain models using a large variety of compositions can be found to reproduce these observations. Since the same aligned grains make the medium linearly birefringent, a small component of circular polarization can result from incident linearly polarized light if the position angle of the linear polarization does not coincide with either principal axis of the medium. Here calculations are presented to demonstrate that the wavelength of the circular polarization is sensitive to the imaginary part of the complex refractive index of the grain material. This provides an opportunity of investigating whether the grains are characteristically dielectric or metallic. Some possible observations are suggested.

scholarly journals Channel Waveguides in Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Lu ◽  
Benjamin Johnston ◽  
Peter Dekker ◽  
Michael Withford ◽  
Judith M. Dawes
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Phase ◽  
Lithium Niobate ◽  
Liquid Phase Epitaxy ◽  
Second Harmonic ◽  
Lithium Tantalate ◽  
Nonlinear Frequency ◽  
Low Loss ◽  
Frequency Converters ◽  
Channel Waveguides ◽  
Photonic Waveguides

Low-loss photonic waveguides in lithium niobate offer versatile functionality as nonlinear frequency converters, switches, and modulators for integrated optics. Combining the flexibility of laser processing with liquid phase epitaxy we have fabricated and characterized lithium niobate channel waveguides on lithium niobate and lithium tantalate. We used liquid phase epitaxy with K2O flux on laser-machined lithium niobate and lithium tantalate substrates. The laser-driven rapid-prototyping technique can be programmed to give machined features of various sizes, and liquid phase epitaxy produces high quality single-crystal, lithium niobate channels. The surface roughness of the lithium niobate channels on a lithium tantalate substrate was measured to be 90 nm. The lithium niobate channel waveguides exhibit propagation losses of 0.26 ± 0.04 dB/mm at a wavelength of 633 nm. Second harmonic generation at 980 nm was demonstrated using the channel waveguides, indicating that these waveguides retain their nonlinear optical properties.

Linear & Nonlinear Frequency Converters

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Esterowitz ◽  
C. Marquardt ◽  
I. Schneider ◽  
R. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Frequency ◽  
Frequency Converters

scholarly journals Channel Waveguides in Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (17) ◽  
pp. 3925
Author(s):  
Yi Lu ◽  
Benjamin Johnston ◽  
Peter Dekker ◽  
Michael J. Withford ◽  
Judith M. Dawes
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Phase ◽  
Lithium Niobate ◽  
Liquid Phase Epitaxy ◽  
Second Harmonic ◽  
Lithium Tantalate ◽  
Nonlinear Frequency ◽  
Low Loss ◽  
Frequency Converters ◽  
Channel Waveguides ◽  
Photonic Waveguides

Low-loss photonic waveguides in lithium niobate offer versatile functionality as nonlinear frequency converters, switches, and modulators for integrated optics. Combining the flexibility of laser processing with liquid phase epitaxy we have fabricated and characterized lithium niobate channel waveguides on lithium niobate and lithium tantalate. We used liquid phase epitaxy with K2O flux on laser-machined lithium niobate and lithium tantalate substrates. The laser-driven rapid-prototyping technique can be programmed to give machined features of various sizes, and liquid phase epitaxy produces high quality single-crystal, lithium niobate channels. The surface roughness of the lithium niobate channels on a lithium tantalate substrate was measured to be 90 nm. The lithium niobate channel waveguides exhibit propagation losses of 0.26 ± 0.04 dB/mm at a wavelength of 633 nm. Second harmonic generation at 980 nm was demonstrated using the channel waveguides, indicating that these waveguides retain their nonlinear optical properties.

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