Abstract

This paper presents a method to design a monolithic complete-light modulator (MCLM) that fully controls the amplitude, phase, and polarization of incident light. The MCLM is made of birefringent materials that provide different refractive indices to orthogonal eigen-polarizations, the ordinary o and extraordinary e states. We propose an optimization method to calculate the two relief depth distributions for the two eigen-polarizations. Also, a merging algorithm is proposed to combine the two relief depth distributions into one. The corresponding simulations were carried out in this work and the desired light distribution, including information on amplitude, phase, and four polarization states, was obtained when a laser beam passed through a 16-depth-level micro-structure whose feature size is 8 μm. The structure was fabricated by common photolithography. An experimental optical system was also set up to test the optical effects and performances of the MCLM. The experimental performance of the MCLM agrees with the simulation results, which verifies the validity of the algorithms we propose in this paper.

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DOI：10.1364/PRJ.7.000875

所属栏目：Holography, Gratings, and Diffraction

基金项目：National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)10.13039/501100001809; Instrument Development of Chinese Academy of Sciences; National R&D Program of China; Sichuan Science and Technology Program; The Applied Basic Research Programs of Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province;

收稿日期：2019-03-05

录用日期：2019-06-12

网络出版日期：2019-07-17

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联系人作者：Lifang Shi(shilifang@ioe.ac.cn); Qiling Deng( dengqiling@ioe.ac.cn);

备注：National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)10.13039/501100001809; Instrument Development of Chinese Academy of Sciences; National R&D Program of China; Sichuan Science and Technology Program; The Applied Basic Research Programs of Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province;

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引用该论文

Yingfei Pang, Axiu Cao, Jiazhou Wang, Hui Pang, Wei Yan, Xiangdong Wu, Lifang Shi, and Qiling Deng, "Design and experimental verification of a monolithic complete-light modulator based on birefringent materials," Photonics Research 7(8), 875-882 (2019)