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Circular polarization

About: Circular polarization is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 15201 publications have been published within this topic receiving 234418 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the generation of radially and azimuthally polarized Q-switched laser radiation and its application in material processing and show that depending on the optical properties of the metal, either radial or azIMuthal polarization shows the best efficiency and the effect is attributed to waveguiding.
Abstract: We report on the generation of radially and azimuthally polarized Q-switched laser radiation and its application in material processing. The power levels were sufficiently high to study micro-hole drilling in different metals. Depending on the optical properties of the metal, either radial or azimuthal polarization shows the best efficiency and the effect is attributed to waveguiding. For steel, a comparison to linearly or circularly polarized laser radiation indicates that the doughnut-shaped beam with azimuthal polarization is the most energy-efficient in producing holes of the same diameter and depth.

466 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the generation of optical vortices with radial or azimuthal polarization using a space variant polarization converter, fabricated by femtosecond laser writing of self-assembled nanostructures in silica glass.
Abstract: We demonstrate the generation of optical vortices with radial or azimuthal polarization using a space variant polarization converter, fabricated by femtosecond laser writing of self-assembled nanostructures in silica glass. Manipulation of the induced form birefringence is achieved by controlling writing parameters, in particular, the polarization azimuth of the writing beam. The fabricated converter allows switching from radial to azimuthal polarization by controlling the handedness of incident circular polarization.

457 citations

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TL;DR: An introduction to the topic of circular polarization is necessary to promote an understanding of the propagation aspects of modern communications system design and a simple laboratory-based project is described that requires the design, fabrication, and measurement of a crossed dipole antenna.
Abstract: Many modern satellite and terrestrial point-to-point communications systems use circular polarization (CP) wave propagation in order to maximize the polarization efficiency component of the link budget. Therefore, in an undergraduate electromagnetics syllabus, an introduction to the topic of circular polarization is necessary to promote an understanding of the propagation aspects of modern communications system design. Students new to the antennas and propagation discipline often have difficulty in grasping the concept of CP; therefore, in this paper, the essential aspects of this topic are reinforced by a tutorial description of CP in terms of wave propagation, antenna properties, and measurement techniques. A simple laboratory-based project is described that requires the design, fabrication, and measurement of a crossed dipole antenna. The measured input impedance and radiation patterns are correlated with theory to highlight the conditions necessary to support CP wave propagation. By combining basic electromagnetic concepts with a series of simple intuitive laboratory experiments, the students can more easily visualize, and hence understand, CP wave propagation and its use in communications systems design.

451 citations

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TL;DR: Huang et al. as mentioned in this paper demonstrated a reconfigurable, unidirectional coupling scheme for excitation of collective oscillations of the electrons at a metal surface, the so-called surface plasmon-polaritons.
Abstract: Researchers have now demonstrated a reconfigurable, unidirectional coupling scheme for excitation of collective oscillations of the electrons at a metal surface, the so-called surface plasmon-polaritons. Lingling Huang and co-workers achieved an efficient and controllable coupling of photons in free space to these surface states on a metal film — a task important for the future development of nanoscale optoelectronic circuitry — by employing a nanostructured thin metal film on a glass substrate. The nanostructured metal film features an array of rectangular nano-apertures arranged in a carefully designed orientation and pattern. Such a ‘plasmonic metasurface’ couples photons to surface plasmon-polaritons while depending crucially on the circular polarization state of the incident light. As a result, when circularly polarized light strikes the surface, the handedness of the light dictates the propagation direction of the resulting surface plasmon-polaritons.

451 citations

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TL;DR: Two interferometric techniques for converting a linearly polarized laser beam into a radially polarized beam with uniform azimuthal intensity are described.
Abstract: Two interferometric techniques for converting a linearly polarized laser beam into a radially polarized beam with uniform azimuthal intensity are described. The techniques are based on the linear combination of orthogonally polarized beams, which have tailored intensity and phase profiles. Linearly polarized beams with intensity profiles tailored using a modified laser or an apodization filter are combined in separate experiments to produce radially polarized light. A beam with an extinction ratio of −21.7 dB and azimuthal intensity variations of less than ±12% is produced using the modified laser output. The second technique uses circularly polarized light and a unique spiral phase delay plate to produce the required phase profile. When focused, a radially polarized beam has a net longitudinal field useful for particle acceleration and, perhaps, other unique applications.

449 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023384
2022821
2021685
2020927
20191,060
2018968