POLARIZATION PROPERTIES OF CORNER-CUBE RETROREFLECTORS - THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Authors
LIU J AZZAM RMA
Citation
J. Liu et Rma. Azzam, POLARIZATION PROPERTIES OF CORNER-CUBE RETROREFLECTORS - THEORY AND EXPERIMENT, Applied optics, 36(7), 1997, pp. 1553-1559
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
36
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1553 - 1559
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1997)36:7<1553:PPOCR->2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Polarization properties of the corner-cube retroreflector are discusse d theoretically by use of ray tracing and analytical geometry. The Jon es matrices and eigenpolarizations of the six propagation trips of the corner-cube retroreflector are derived. An experiment is also set up for the determination of the Linear eigenpolarizations and the output states of polarization for incident linearly polarized light. The expe rimental results are consistent with theoretical expectations. (C) 199 7 Optical Society of America.