{"title":"Demonstration of half waveplate using polarization properties of a photonic crystal","authors":"D. Solli, C. Mccormick, R. Chiao, J. Hickmann","doi":"10.1109/QELS.2003.238453","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We have constructed and experimentally tested a half waveplate based on the dispersive birefringent properties of a bulk two-dimensional photonic crystal away from its band gap. A polarization contrast better than 200:1 was measured.","PeriodicalId":432096,"journal":{"name":"Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03.","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QELS.2003.238453","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We have constructed and experimentally tested a half waveplate based on the dispersive birefringent properties of a bulk two-dimensional photonic crystal away from its band gap. A polarization contrast better than 200:1 was measured.