An electro-optic (EO) switch based on a Fabry-Perot resonator design was fabricated and tested. The switch is comprised
of two high index glass substrates with indium tin oxide (ITO) coated Bragg mirrors, surrounding an electro-optic
polymer layer. The ITO top layers were patterned, the electro-optic polymer, SEO100 (Soluxra Inc.), was spun coat onto
each of the two Bragg substrates, and the two samples were wafer bonded. The sandwich device was then electric field
poled using a field between 80 and 90 V/μm in order to induce a second-order nonlinear optical activity in the electrooptic
polymer. The experimental results done at 1.31 micron laser wavelength with a drive voltage of ±200 volts yielded
a modulation depth of around 86% and 80% for frequencies of 1kHz and 10kHz, respectively.
In this paper, the generation of two-dimensional flattop focusing with second order full Poincaré beams
under low numerical aperture focusing condition is proposed and experimentally demonstrated by using
a liquid crystal spatial light modulator (SLM). Different input beam sizes can be accommodated by
conveniently rotating the half-wave plate and adjusting the working distance. Furthermore, the
quantization of the phase pattern loaded onto the SLM has been theoretically and experimentally
studied, which potentially may lead to the fabrication of a compact versatile flattop beam shaper. High
quality flattop profiles with steep edge roll-off can be obtained with this technique.
In this paper, we study and compare the propagation properties of both scalar and vector vortex beams through turbulent
atmosphere. The atmosphere turbulence effect is simulated with von Kármán power spectrum model using index of
refraction structure parameter, Cn2, values ranging from 10-14 m-2/3 to 10-12 m-2/3. For different propagation distances, the
irradiance pattern and the scintillation index are computed for a fundamental Gaussian beam, a scalar vortex with
topological charge of +1 and a radially polarized beam under the same turbulence condition. The results demonstrate the
advantages of using vector vortex to mitigate atmospheric effects. In addition, it is found by analyzing the polarization
pattern of the transmitted vector vortex beams, that they may find applications in free space communications and remote
sensing.
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