Polarization MicroOptics

Categories: µ-3D printing

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Here we show the use of DLW for the fabrication of a miniaturized phase retarder element, a Fresnel Rhomb, which acts as a broadband quarter-wave plate. We show the integration of the Fresnel Rhomb onto a polarization-maintaining optical fiber, converting linearly polarized light from the fiber into circularly polarized light over a very broad spectral range. 

Polarization Micro-Optics: circular polarization from a Fresnel Rhomb 3D printed on an optical fiber, A Bertoncini, C Liberale, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters  (DOI:10.1109/LPT.2018.2871161, 2018)  ​