Synchronization of optical polarization conversion and scattering in chiral fibers |
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Authors: | Kopp Victor I Churikov Victor M Genack Azriel Z |
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Affiliation: | Chiral Photonics, Inc., Clifton, New Jersey 07012, USA. vickopp@chiralphotonics.com |
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Abstract: | We demonstrate that polarization transformation and scattering in adiabatically twisted single-mode birefringent optical fibers is synchronized so that light in one evolving elliptically polarized mode is freely transmitted while orthogonally polarized light is scattered out of the fiber. Thus, linearly polarized radiation initially oriented along the fast axis of the untwisted fiber is transformed to circularly polarized light with the same sense of rotation as the twisted fiber and is scattered out of the fiber. When the fiber twist is first accelerated and then decelerated, the fiber becomes a broadband, low-insertion-loss, linear polarizer. |
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