Polarized light characteristic real-time measuring device and method based on four-way light splitting module

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The invention discloses a polarized light characteristic real-time measuring device and method based on a four-way light splitting module. According to a system, three light splitting prisms are utilized to evenly divide polarized light into four ways, energy of the four ways of light passing through polarizing pieces with four different azimuth angles is detected in real time through a power detection module, the polarization azimuth angle and the ellipticity angle of incident light can be calculated by utilizing a polarizing piece energy transmittance rate equation, and accordingly the aim of real-time measurement is achieved. The system is suitable for the fields of polarized optical systems and elliptical polarization measurement and the fields of measurement and detection of laser technologies and quantum communication and the like which are related with polarization.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to single-photon detection technology and polarization characteristic measurement technology, in particular to a real-time measurement device and method for polarization characteristics based on a four-way beam splitting module, which is applicable to polarization optical systems, ellipsometric measurement fields, laser technology and quantum communication Measurement and detection fields related to polarization. technical background [0002] With the continuous deepening of people's understanding and research on the polarization phenomenon of light, polarization information has been gradually applied to the detection of targets. By detecting the polarization information of the reflected light of the target to invert the relevant information of the target to be measured, the measurable information of the target to be measured can be increased from the original dimension to three dimensions. The polarization information has...

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[0007] The purpose of this patent is to provide a device and method for real-time measurement of the azimuth angle and ellipticity angle of polarized light based on a four-way beam splitting module, which overcomes the time-consuming problem of the existing polarization measurement device in the measurement process, and the measurement process is real-time strong; and the energy splitting method is used to avoid the influence on the polarization characteristics of the measured light source during the splitting process; the power measurement module of the device can use a classic optical power measurement module, or it can be replaced with a single photon power measurement module, which can be used for The real-time detection of classical light polarization characteristics can also be applied to the real-time detection of quantum light polarization characteristics in quantum communication; the detection system has strong portability and a wide range of applications

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