3 results about "Linear birefringence" patented technology

This disclosure provides an optically active nanocomposite material having a textured substrate and a multilayer optical stack comprising multiple nanosheets. The nanosheets may be chiral and composed of materials such as transition metal chalcogenides, MXenes, or nanocarbon. The optically active nanocomposite material exhibits linear birefringence (LB) and linear dichroism (LD), and optionally circular dichroism (CD). The nanocomposite material also exhibits optical asymmetry. g The factor may be greater than or equal to 1. Furthermore, the nanocomposite material exhibits thermal stability, for example, remaining stable at temperatures above or equal to about 250 °C. This disclosure also provides different methods for preparing such nanocomposite materials using a layer-by-layer self-assembly (LBL) process.

The application provides an all-fiber current sensor based on linear measurement of sharp wedge interference, linearly polarized light obtained through a polarizer is divided into two mutually orthogonal linearly polarized lights through a coupler, a delay line and a 45-degree fusion splice point, is modulated by an initial phase modulator, is converted into left-handed and right-handed circularly polarized light through a first lambda / 4 wave plate, enters a sensing optical fiber, and a phase difference of the two circularly polarized lights is generated through a Faraday magneto-optic effect; the phase difference is doubled after being reflected by a mirror, is combined into a linearly polarized light through a first lambda / 4 wave plate and a 45-degree fusion splice point, and the phase difference of the circularly polarized light is converted into a rotation of a polarization plane of the linearly polarized light; the rotation of the polarization plane of the linearly polarized light is converted into synchronous translation of a light spot through a coupler, a second lambda / 4 wave plate, a sharp wedge and a polarizer after being twice phase-modulated by a modulator; and linear measurement of a phase delay angle is obtained through positioning of the light spot by an image sensor; the demodulation result of the application is irrelevant to optical power, and is beneficial to separation and compensation of linear birefringence.