Title

Principal Angles And Principal Azimuths Of In-Line Symmetric Three-Reflection Mirror System: Application To Circular Polarization Of Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation

Abstract

Contours of constant principal angle ̄φ and constant principal azimuth ̄ψ for an in-line, symmetric, three-reflection mirror system are presented. The three mirrors are assumed to be uncoated substrates of the same homogeneous isotropic material with complex relative dielectric function epsilon. By assigning values to ̄φ from 45 to 85 deg in 5- deg steps, the constraint on complex epsilon is determined numerically and represented graphically. The special case of ̄φ equals 45 deg, which applies to a right-angle parallel-mirror beam displacer, enables an analytical solution. These results have important applications for the production of circular polarization over the entire spectrum, and especially in the VUV, where transmission-type devices are not possible. The performance of the three- mirror system as a VUV quarter-wave retarder/circular polarizer using different metals is also considered.

Publication Date

1-1-1995

Publication Title

Optical Engineering

Volume

34

Issue

6

Number of Pages

1551-1557

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.202063

Socpus ID

0029313804 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0029313804

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