Biener Gabriel, Niv Avi, Kleiner Vladimir, Hasman Erez
Optical Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
Opt Lett. 2003 Aug 15;28(16):1400-2. doi: 10.1364/ol.28.001400.
We present a novel method for the formation of a complete depolarizer that is based on a polarization-state scrambling procedure over the space domain. Such an element can be achieved by use of cascaded, computer-generated, space-variant subwavelength dielectric gratings. We introduce a theoretical analysis and experimentally demonstrate a depolarizer for infrared radiation at a wavelength of 10.6 microm.