An Endless Reset-Free Polarization Control Method Using Two Wave Plates

Rong, Weifeng; Dupont, Laurent; Wang, Yixin; Yeo, Yong-Kee; Chen, Jian; Wu, Kuang Tsan; Paulose, Varghese

doi:10.1109/jphot.2010.2077275

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“…The phase change between x-axis and y-axis of the incident light is given by ∆φ= (2π/λ)Lr22Vno 3 /d, where r22 is the nonzero component of the electro-optic tensor for LiNbO3, no is the index of refraction of LiNbO3 crystal, V is the voltage applied across the EOM, and d is the distance between the electrodes on the EOM. Then using the Jones matrix and stokes vectors 21,22 , we deduce that the EOM's application to polarization rotation in azimuth and in ellipticity can be expressed as tan2ψ =tan2θ/cosφ and sin2χ=cos2θsinφ, respectively. ψ is the azimuth angle, χ is the ellipticity angle, and θ is the angle between the initial polarization direction and x axis.…”

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Steering optical comb frequencies by rotating the polarization state

Zhang¹,

Zhang²,

Yan³

et al. 2017

Opt. Lett.

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We demonstrate a new approach to steer the frequencies of a nonlinear polarization-rotation mode-locked laser, where a specially designed intrcavity electro-optic modulator tunes the polarization state of the laser signal. This approach not only results in the broadband associated with high performance, but also results in a large dynamic range associated with good robustness. Our experimental results show that frequency control dynamic ranges are at least one order of magnitude larger than those of the previous ultra-fast frequency control techniques, reaching hundreds of hertz and hundreds of megahertz for repetition rate (f) and carrier-envelope-offset frequency (f), respectively.

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