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CA 2011829
QUASI-ACHROMATIC OPTICAL ISOLATORS AND CIRCULATORS USING PRISMS WITH INTERNAL FRESNEL REFLECTION ABSTRACT A quasi-achromatic configuration of two nonreciprocal optical rotators coupled by linear retardation elements based on total internal Fresnel reflection, such that wavelength or temperature effects on the optical rotator elements compensate one another to give quasi-achromatic isolation and/or temperature stability when this optical configuration is incorporated into an optical isolator or circulator. A quasi-achromatic optical isolator through which a light beam within a wavelength range about a nominal wavelength may propagate is made from a sequence of elements having a first plane polarizer accepting said light beam as an input, said light beam then passing through in sequence, a first Faraday rotator, a first wavelength independent linear retardation element, a second Faraday rotator, a second wavelength independent linear retardation element, and said light beam exiting said isolator undiminished in intensity through a second plane polarizer. A quasi-achromatic optical circulator having first, second, third and fourth ports is provided such that said circulator may accept a light beam within a wavelength range about a nominal wavelength and direct it to a succeeding port. A light beam enters said circulator through a first polarizing beam splitter adjacent to said first and third ports and passes through sequentially a first Faraday rotator, a first wavelength independent linear retardation element, a second Faraday rotator, a second wavelength independent linear retardation element and a second polarizing beam splitter adjacent to said second and fourth ports of said circulator, whereby said light beam is transmitted undiminished in intensity to the next succeeding port.
Buhrer Carl F.
Carlsen W. J.
Buhrer Carl F.
Carlsen W. J.
Gte Laboratories Incorporated
R. William Wray & Associates
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