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18 November 2013 Polarized light by quadrature amplitude modulation
Rosaura Kantun-Montiel, Cruz Meneses-Fabian, Uriel Rivera-Ortega, Gildardo-Pablo Lemus-Alonso, Erika Barojas-Gutierrez, Rosario Pastrana-Sanchez
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Proceedings Volume 8785, 8th Iberoamerican Optics Meeting and 11th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Applications; 87852P (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2025670
Event: 8th Ibero American Optics Meeting/11th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Applications, 2013, Porto, Portugal
Abstract
A new method to create elliptically polarized light based on the quadrature amplitude modulation is proposed. This method begins from an unpolarized light and does not use any classical methods, as for instance those using polarizers and retarders or also by refraction, scattering, dichroism or birefringence effects. This method is based on the amplitude modulation of two optical waves in quadrature in order to modulate the field in amplitude and phase. With this idea, we show that any amplitude relation and relative phase difference between components can be created and therefore any polarization state can be carried out. A theoretical model will be shown, and it will be sustained with numerical simulations of several polarization examples
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Rosaura Kantun-Montiel, Cruz Meneses-Fabian, Uriel Rivera-Ortega, Gildardo-Pablo Lemus-Alonso, Erika Barojas-Gutierrez, and Rosario Pastrana-Sanchez "Polarized light by quadrature amplitude modulation", Proc. SPIE 8785, 8th Iberoamerican Optics Meeting and 11th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Applications, 87852P (18 November 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2025670
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KEYWORDS
Polarization

Modulation

Phase shift keying

Beam splitters

Quadrature amplitude modulation

Wave plates

Numerical simulations

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