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Influence of surface roughness on the polarimetric characteristics of a wire-grid grating polarizer
Hojeong Ryu1, Soon Joon Yoon, Donghyun Kim
1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 120-749.
Abstract:
The influence of surface roughness on the polarimetric performance of a wire-grid polarizer (WGP) is numerically investigated using rigorous coupled-wave analysis over 100 random surface realizations. Surface roughness is modeled with a Gaussian surface, represented by two independent parameters: surface height deviation and correlation length of a profile. The results show that WGP performance can suffer from significant degradation as well as increased deviation with surface roughness, although the extent varies with specific parameters. The influence of roughness was also examined with respect to grating period as a WGP parameter and incident light properties, such as wavelength and angle.
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