Conversion of unpolarized light to polarized light with greater than 50% efficiency by photorefractive two-beam coupling

John E. Heebner; Ryan S. Bennink; Robert W. Boyd; R. A. Fisher

doi:10.1364/OL.25.000257

Conversion of unpolarized light to polarized light with greater than 50% efficiency by photorefractive two-beam coupling

John E. Heebner, Ryan S. Bennink, Robert W. Boyd, R. A. Fisher

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All known polarizers operate through a separation of orthogonal electric field components, one of which is subsequently discarded. As a result, 50% of the unpolarized incident light is wasted in the process of conversion to polarized light. We demonstrate a new method by which we use the optical power in the ordinarily discarded component as the pump to amplify the retained component through photorefractive two-beam coupling to achieve greater than 50% throughput.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	257-259
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.25.000257
State	Published - Feb 15 2000
Externally published	Yes

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