液晶空间光调制器通过改变驱动电压强度控制液晶分子排布实现对光的调制。紫外区域可用的液晶空间光调制器随光聚合式3D打印等应用的兴起，重要性日益显现。然而绝大多数液晶材料都是有机物，在紫外波段存在光吸收和光反应。为了拓宽液晶材料的应用波段，本文通过选择在应用波段不发生紫外吸收和光反应的官能团，设计了一类可在325~400 nm波段应用不发生光吸收和光反应的液晶材料，并对液晶材料的紫外-可见光光谱进行仿真以验证设计的合理性。将耐紫外液晶化合物配置成混合液晶材料后与常见的两种混合液晶材料的紫外稳定性进行比较。在经过120 min的325 nm紫外光源的辐照后，液晶材料的吸光度和相变温度几乎不变，双折射率变化0.04%，阈值电压变化1.39%，响应时间变化0.32%。

In this paper, the frequency difference of the eigen polarization modes of the Nd:YAG crystal laser at different polarization ratios is experimentally studied, and to the best of our knowledge, the correlation between the frequency difference of the eigenmodes and the output polarization degree is reported for the first time. Combined with the analysis of the polarization beam profile, it is proved that the polarized laser produced by the isotropic crystal is due to the frequency locking of the eigen polarization modes. The weak birefringence in the crystal causes the round-trip phase difference of the orthogonal polarization modes, which leads to the frequency difference between the polarization modes. By the adjustment of the cavity mirror, the anisotropic loss will interact with the round-trip phase difference. The eigen polarization modes can reach frequency degeneration, and then be coherently combined to produce linearly polarized laser output. This work provides a useful reference for understanding the physical mechanism of polarized lasers realized by isotropic crystals.

Fiber quarter-wave plates and magneto-optical fibers are important components that greatly affect the sensitivity of fiber-optic current sensors. A Tb:YAG crystal-derived silica fiber (TYDSF) was fabricated using a CO2 laser-heating drawing technique. The linear birefringence of TYDSF was measured as 6.661×10-6 by a microscope birefringence measurement instrument. A fiber quarter-wave plate was fabricated by TYDSF at 1310 nm, which produced circularly polarized light with a polarization extinction ratio of 0.34 dB. Additionally, the linear birefringence of TYDSF was decreased by 22% by annealing at 750°C for 7 h, and the Verdet constants of annealed TYDSF were measured to be 9.83, 6.67, and 3.48rad/(T·m) at 808, 980, and 1310 nm, respectively.

Polarimetry is a highly sensitive method to quantify changes of the polarization state of light when passing through matter and is therefore widely applied in material science. The progress of synchrotron and X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) sources has led to significant developments of X-ray polarizers, opening perspectives for new applications of polarimetry to study source and beamline parameters as well as sample characteristics. X-ray polarimetry has shown to date a polarization purity of less than $1.4\times {10}^{-11}$ , enabling the detection of very small signals from ultrafast phenomena. A prominent application is the detection of vacuum birefringence. Vacuum birefringence is predicted in quantum electrodynamics and is expected to be probed by combining an XFEL with a petawatt-class optical laser. We review how source and optical elements affect X-ray polarimeters in general and which qualities are required for the detection of vacuum birefringence.

为了实现对光学材料、光学元件的快速、高精度应力双折射测试评估分析，本文提出了一种基于双弹光级联差频调制的应力双折射二维分布测量方案。将两个工作在不同频率的弹光调制器级联，构成偏振测量装置。光学材料和元件的应力双折射延迟量和快轴方位角参数，被加载到偏振测量装置的调制信号中；采用数字锁相技术，提取调制信号的基频项和差频项，然后完成应力双折射延迟量和快轴方位角两个参数求解；按照原理分析，研制了测试系统，并完成了系统初始偏移值定标；采用波片进行了测量精度和重复性测试，并完成了BK7玻璃样品的应力双折射分布测量实验。实验结果表明，该系统的快轴测量重复性为0.01°，双折射延迟量测量重复性为0.02 nm，单数据点测量时间小于200 ms。本文方案实现了高速、高精度和高重复度的应力双折射测量，同时具备应力双折射二维分布测量能力，可为波片、玻璃或晶体等光学材料双折射测量分析和评估提供有效手段。

A recent JEOS-RP publication proposed Comments about Dispersion of Light Waves, and we present here complementary comments for birefringence dispersion in polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers, and for its measurement techniques based on channeled spectrum analysis. We start by a study of early seminal papers, and we propose additional explanations to get a simpler understanding of the subject. A geometrical construction is described to relate phase birefringence to group birefringence, and it is applied to the measurement of several kinds of PM fibers using stress-induced photo-elasticity, or shape birefringence. These measurements confirm clearly that the difference between group birefringence and phase birefringence is limited to 15–20% in stress-induced PM fibers (bow-tie, panda, or tiger-eye), but that it can get up to a 3-fold factor with an elliptical-core (E-core) fiber. There are also surprising results with solid-core micro-structured PM fibers, that are based on shape birefringence, as E-core fibers.