Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system which relates to a non-destructive technology for measuring a surface parameter of a sample for measuring the birefringence of a surface, a film thickness, etc. using a polarimetric spectrum. SOLUTION: A polarized sample beam 46 of broadband radiation is focused to the surface of a sample 3 and the radiation polarized by the sample is collected by a mirror system in different planes of incidence. The modulated radiation is analyzed with respect to a polarization plane to provide a polarimetric spectrum. Thickness and refractive information may then be derived from the spectrum. The polarization of the sample beam is altered by the focusing and the sample, and the collection of the modulated radiation is repeated employing two different apertures 28 to detect the presence or absence of a birefringence axis in the sample. In the other preferred embodiment, the technology may be combined with ellipsometry for determining the thicknesses and refractive indices of thin films. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
Provided is a polarization measuring device including a stage on which a measurement target is provided, a light source assembly configured to emit incident light, a first polarimeter configured to polarize the incident light, a second polarimeter configured to polarize reflected light reflected from the measurement target that is irradiated by the incident light, a filter assembly configured to remove noise from the reflected light, and a detector configured to receive the reflected light and measure an intensity of the reflected light and a phase of the reflected light.
Abstract:
A short wave infrared polarimeter comprising a pixelated polarizer array and an Indium-Gallium-Arsenide (“InGaAs”) focal plane array. The short wave infrared polarimeter optionally includes a micro-lens array and/or an aperture layer
Abstract:
A hyper-entanglement photon server (i.e., hub) employs non-degenerate frequencies input as entangled photon pairs into a beam splitter. The beam splitter splits probability amplitudes into two sets of bunched superposition states plus two sets of anti-bunched superposition states. The amplitudes pass through identical Lyot filters and then either enter a polarization beam splitter, where the bunched and anti-bunched states switch identities, or merely advance unchanged to awaiting users at two distinct and spatially-displaced positions (i.e., spokes). The Lyot filters change the output amplitudes from rotationally invariant superpositions of generalized Bell States to rotationally non-invariant superpositions of generalized Bell states. All hubs and spokes pre-share operating key material (a security method called KCQ) that may be continually updated by shared stream ciphers seeded by fresh key material engendered by hub-to-spoke quantum communication.
Abstract:
A polarimeter includes an integrated device with an array of antennas including multiple column pairs. Each column pair has two columns, and each column in each column pair includes multiple antennas. A first column of each column pair in the array scatters a first polarization component of an incident radiation, and a second column of each column pair in the array scatters a second polarization component of the incident radiation. The scattered fields of the column pairs interfere constructively in a direction depending on the polarization of the incident radiation, resulting in maximal intensity at a certain point in space for a specific polarization state. Multiple column pairs in parallel and oriented at angles with respect to each other can be used to scatter different polarization components of the incident radiation directionally to different points in space. Detectors are positioned with respect to the integrated device to detect polarization components.
Abstract:
A photon entanglement router comprises a modified birefringent spectral filter followed by a polarization beam splitter (PBS). Frequency degenerate or non-degenerate entangled photons, generated by a collinear laser source and incident on one input port of the photon entanglement router, are comprised of congruent photons and/or incongruent photons. The invention adds a plurality of additional filter stacks at each output port such that they invert the action of the first birefringent stack at the input port. Intermediate output photons from the invention is input to two ports of an additional PBS where they are spatially projected according to their frequencies and polarizations. Two congruent photons of an entangled photon pair exit as an entangled pair in one direction, while two incongruent photons exit as an entangled pair in the orthogonal direction. If one photon is congruent and the other photon incongruent, the photons remain entangled but are spectrally divided into orthogonal directions. The invention's birefringent spectral filter accepts specific input frequencies from the ITU optical C-band grid for proper operation.
Abstract:
An accurate and robust wavefront-division polarimetric analysis method and device, allows the quasi-instantaneous measurement of the polarization states of a luminous object. The device can be used to produce a plurality of light beams, all polarized according to different polarization states, from a single upstream light beam. The polarized light beams, which do not overlap and which carry information items that are complementary in terms of polarization, are analyzed simultaneously by a plurality of detectors that measure the luminous intensity of each beam. Processing elements digitally process the luminous intensity values obtained in order to determine the polarization state of the upstream light beam. The operations performed by the processing elements prevent luminous intensity variations in the split light beams during the division of the wavefront of the upstream light beam. Therefore, the wavefront-division polarimetric analysis device is robust and its accuracy is not hindered by the experimental conditions.