Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

The Lyot depolarizer in quasimonochromatic light

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

An analysis is made of the depolarizing properties of the Lyot depolarizer on light of arbitrary polarization and spectral properties. It is shown that the percentage modulation of the intensity transmitted by a rotating polarizer placed behind the depolarizer is a simple function of the Fourier transform of the frequency power spectrum of the incident light. Some consequences of this behavior are examined for commonly encountered spectra, notable among which is a periodic dependence of the modulation factor on the thickness of the depolarizer when the incident beam is generated by a semiconductor laser.

© 1979 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
Lyot depolarizer in terms of the theory of coherence—description for light of any spectrum

Piotr L. Makowski, Marek Z. Szymanski, and Andrzej W. Domanski
Appl. Opt. 51(5) 626-634 (2012)

Degree of polarization in jointed fibers: the Lyot depolarizer

Kiyofumi Mochizuki
Appl. Opt. 23(19) 3284-3288 (1984)

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Equations (44)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Equations are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved