Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 38, Issue 11, 1131001(2018)

Effect of Spatial Atomic Oxygen on Polarization Contrast of Polarization-Maintaining Mirror

Weibo Duan*, Daqi Li, Baojian Liu, Deming Yu, Gang Chen, and Dingquan Liu
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  • Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
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    The metal coating material of Ag and dielectric thin film materials such as Ta2O5, SiO2 and Al2O3 are selected for designing and fabricating a kind of polarization-maintaining mirror on the quartz substrate, whose polarization contrasts at wavelengths of 810 nm and 850 nm are superior to 10000∶1. With the combination of the orbital environment for the polarization-maintaining mirror, the experiment for simulating the spatial atomic oxygen is conducted and the change law of polarization contrast of the polarization-maintaining mirror sample is investigated. The results show that, with the increase of the dose of the atomic oxygen, the polarization contrast of the polarization-maintaining mirror shows an overall decreasing trend. Moreover, the decreasing trends along the directions of +45° and -45° are more obvious than those along the horizontal (H) and vertical (V) directions.

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    Weibo Duan, Daqi Li, Baojian Liu, Deming Yu, Gang Chen, Dingquan Liu. Effect of Spatial Atomic Oxygen on Polarization Contrast of Polarization-Maintaining Mirror[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2018, 38(11): 1131001

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    Category: Thin Films

    Received: May. 15, 2018

    Accepted: Jun. 13, 2018

    Published Online: May. 9, 2019

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    DOI:10.3788/AOS201838.1131001

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