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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Cécile Joubert, Orsay, FR;
Jean-Claude Lehureau, Ste Genevieve des Bois, FR;
Assignee:
Thomson-CSF, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/30 ;
Abstract
A polarization splitter which includes a splitting medium lying between two transparent elements of defined indices. The splitting medium includes a periodic structure of layers of materials of different indices and having a period which is small compared with the wavelength of an incident beam so as to form a uniaxial birefringent medium of optical axis perpendicular to the plane of the periodic structure. The two transparent elements are made of a material of index approximately equal to the ordinary index (n ) of the periodic structure.