RT Journal Article
T1 Polarization changes at Lyot depolarizer output for different types of input beams
A1 Piquero Sanz, Gemma María
A1 González de Sande, Juan Carlos
A1 Teijeiro, Cristina
AB Lyot depolarizers are optical devices made of birefringent materials used for producing unpolarized beams from totally polarized incident light. The depolarization is produced for polychromatic input beams due to the different phase introduced by the Lyot depolarizer for each wavelength. The effect of this device on other types of incident fields is investigated. In particular two cases are analyzed: (i) monochromatic and nonuniformly polarized incident beams and (ii) incident light synthesized by superposition of two monochromatic orthogonally polarized beams with different wavelengths. In the last case, it is theoretically and experimentally shown that the Lyot depolarizer increases the degree of polarization instead of depolarizes.
PB Optical Society of America
SN 1084-7529
YR 2012
FD 2012-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44017
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44017
LA eng
NO © 2012 Optical Society of America.One of the authors (G. P.) is grateful to the project FIS2010-17543 of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación of Spain.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación of Spain
DS Docta Complutense
RD 24 abr 2025