… to deliver a preselected polarization transformation [6–13]. For … plate (retarder) refers to
birefringent optical elements where … an elliptic retarder, whose eigenstates are given by a pair of …

… optical devices for unitary transformations on polarized light … retarders to make arbitrary
unitary transformations on the … to the pitch of the helical stack of birefringent layers. In the so-…

… or phase retarders, and are often created by using optically … broadband polarization
conversion, by analyzing stacks of … 5, we show the ellipticity data measured for a couple of our …

… on devices that convert right into left circularly polarized light. A … A retarder, as we will see
in more detail in Chapter 3, is a … that has proven useful in both spectral regions is the stacked-…

… of the domain of the n 1 n 2 plane of all possible pairs (n 1 , n 2 ) that lead to HWR in …
polarization transformation that occurs when light is reflected at normal incidence from an optically …

… case of conversion between a pair of vectorial states, but not the … When an input polarisation
state is transformed by a … Future implementations might use a stack of simpler transmission …

… optical element only recently developed. This is the essentially lossless retarder stack filter,
which can rotate the plane of polarisation … The transformation has been fuelled by increasing …

… polarization state for white light followed by a retarder stack. … transmission function as a
Fourier transform. This allows generation … response are Fourier transform pairs, the transmission …

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disappeared between when this work was written and when it is read. Neither the publisher nor …

… endlessly transform any input polarization into a principal state of … to consist of lossless
optical retarders, and isotropic … A stack of FLC’s with aligned axes can be considered to be a …