Wide-Angle and Broadband Polarization Converter
First Claim
1. A polarization converter comprising:
- a polarization beam splitter for receiving a light beam, passing a first polarization wave of the light beam through the polarization beam splitter and reflecting a second polarization wave of the light beam; and
a diffraction grating having a reflectivity and a polarization convertible grating for receiving the transverse electric wave and reflecting back an elliptically polarized wave having a polarization rotation.
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods for a polarization converter comprising a polarization beam splitter for receiving an input light beam and allows a transverse magnetic to pass through the polarization beam splitter and reflects a transverse electric wave and a diffraction grating having a reflectivity and polarization convertible grating for receiving the transverse electric wave reflects back a reflected transverse electric wave having a polarization rotation. The broadband wide-angle polarization beam splitter can be alternative optical elements such as a prism or an optical device having multi-layered films. The diffraction grating can be a diffraction grating having alternating parallel protrusions and recesses, metallic diffraction grating, metal-coated diffraction grating, metal-coated multi-layered diffraction grating, non-metallic reflective material surface grating, volume grating, a multi-layer grating, diffractive grating having sub-wavelength grating periods or diffractive grating having multi-orders diffraction gratings. The diffraction grating can have alternative shapes such as binary, trapezoidal, sinusoidal, parabolic, triangular and Gaussian.
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20 Claims
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1. A polarization converter comprising:
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a polarization beam splitter for receiving a light beam, passing a first polarization wave of the light beam through the polarization beam splitter and reflecting a second polarization wave of the light beam; and a diffraction grating having a reflectivity and a polarization convertible grating for receiving the transverse electric wave and reflecting back an elliptically polarized wave having a polarization rotation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for efficient polarization conversion of a light beam comprising the steps of:
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receiving a light beam at a polarization beam splitter; passing a first polarization wave of the light beam through the polarization beam splitter; reflecting a second polarization wave of the light beam from the polarization beam splitter to a diffraction grating; reflecting an elliptically polarized wave from the diffraction grating back to the polarization beam splitter; receiving the reflected elliptically polarized light at the polarization beam splitter; and repeating the steps for multiple-bouncing between the polarization beam splitter and the diffraction grating to achieve high polarization conversion efficiency. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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