Achromatic prism-type wave plate for broadband terahertz pulses

作者:Kawada Yoichi*; Yasuda Takashi; Nakanishi Atsushi; Akiyama Koichiro; Hakamata Kento; Takahashi Hironori
来源:Optics Letters, 2014, 39(9): 2794-2797.
DOI:10.1364/OL.39.002794

摘要

We demonstrated achromatic half-and quarter-wave plates for broadband terahertz pulses using phase retardation by internal total reflection. Prism-type wave plates realized ultra-broadband retardation stability up to 2.5 THz, which was the limitation of our experimental setup. Novel aspects of our work were use of a 3 lambda/4 plate as a quarter-wave plate and a multistacked prism-type (MSP) wave plate for a large-aperture THz beam. Real-time polarization imaging of two crossed bunches of hairs was performed to show the efficiency of the MSP wave plate. We clearly observed polarization dependence of the hair direction.

  • 出版日期2014-5-1