Characterization of beam splitter using Mueller matrix ellipsometry

Song Zhang; Jiamin Liu; Hao Jiang; Shiyuan Liu

doi:10.1117/12.2511510

7 March 2019 Characterization of beam splitter using Mueller matrix ellipsometry

Song Zhang, Jiamin Liu, Hao Jiang, Shiyuan Liu

Proceedings Volume 11053, Tenth International Symposium on Precision Engineering Measurements and Instrumentation; 110531M (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2511510
Event: 10th International Symposium on Precision Engineering Measurements and Instrumentation (ISPEMI 2018), 2018, Kunming, China

Abstract

Polarization distortion is a phenomenon which the polarization state of output light deviates from the theoretical expectation. Due to the design defects and process limitations, polarization distortion in beam splitter is inevitable, which results in the significant errors in the optical systems. A theoretical analysis method based on Mueller matrix is proposed for characterizing the beam splitter. In the propose approach, polarization distortion in the beam splitter including depolarization, linear and circular birefringence, and linear diattenuation, circular dichroism have been considered. With the proposed method, we can characterize the beam splitters and extract the related effective optical parameters of polarization distortion. The Mueller matrices of two different commonly used beam splitters measured by a commercial Mueller matrix ellipsometer (MME) are consistently fitted by the proposed method and the residual errors have shown the improvement compared to the conventional methods.

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Song Zhang, Jiamin Liu, Hao Jiang, and Shiyuan Liu "Characterization of beam splitter using Mueller matrix ellipsometry", Proc. SPIE 11053, Tenth International Symposium on Precision Engineering Measurements and Instrumentation, 110531M (7 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2511510

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