Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 40, Issue 15, 1531001(2020)
Design and Fabrication of Polarization- and Phase-Modulated Mirror
In this study, the equivalent film theory is used to develop a polarization- and phase-modulated mirror with target wavelengths of 780, 810, and 850 nm and an incidence angle of 45°. Apart from achieving polarization and phase modulation, the obtained mirror can ensure the high reflectivity of the thin films. A metallic material (Ag) and two dielectric thin film materials (such as Ta2O5 and SiO2) are selected as the film materials to obtain high reflectance over a wide waveband. The mirror film system is fabricated on an optical glass substrate (JGS-1) using the electron beam evaporation, thermal evaporation, and quartz crystal oscillation monitoring technologies. The measured spectra of the mirror film system denote that the average reflectance is greater than 95% in the wavelength range of 500--1600 nm and the extinction ratios at the target wavelengths exceed 3000∶1, 5000∶1, and 7000∶1. Thus, the proposed mirror satisfies the reliability requirement associated with space-to-ground quantum communication.
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Deming Yu, Weibo Duan, Daqi Li, Baojian Liu, Gang Chen, Ruijin Hong. Design and Fabrication of Polarization- and Phase-Modulated Mirror[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2020, 40(15): 1531001
Category: Thin Films
Received: Nov. 19, 2019
Accepted: Apr. 30, 2020
Published Online: Aug. 14, 2020
The Author Email: Yu Deming (steven?deming@hotmail.com)