Impact of the effective thickness from anti-reflective sub-wavelength structures in achromatic half-wave plate design

Ryota Takaku; Susanna Azzoni; Tommaso Ghigna; Takashi Hasebe; Thuong D. Hoang; Yurika Hoshino; Nobuhiko Katayama; Kunimoto Komatsu; Kuniaki Konishi; Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami; Tomotake Matsumura; Haruyuki Sakurai; Yuki Sakurai; Shinya Sugiyama; Noriko N. Yamasaki; Junji Yumoto

doi:10.1117/12.2629213

31 August 2022 Impact of the effective thickness from anti-reflective sub-wavelength structures in achromatic half-wave plate design

Ryota Takaku, Susanna Azzoni, Tommaso Ghigna, Takashi Hasebe, Thuong D. Hoang, Yurika Hoshino, Nobuhiko Katayama, Kunimoto Komatsu, Kuniaki Konishi, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, Tomotake Matsumura, Haruyuki Sakurai, Yuki Sakurai, Shinya Sugiyama, Noriko N. Yamasaki, Junji Yumoto

Author Affiliations +

Proceedings Volume 12190, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI; 121902K (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629213
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Conference Poster

Abstract

We develop a continuously rotating achromatic half-wave plate (HWP) for LiteBIRD. An achromatic HWP is made of five-layer sapphire plates following a Pancharatnam design. The two surfaces employ broadband anti-reflection (AR) sub-wavelength structures (SWS) fabricated with ultra-short pulsed laser ablation. For designing AHWP with SWS, we fabricated three representative structures using laser ablation. One has a symmetric SWS shape and the other two have different asymmetric shapes in ordinary and extraordinary directions. We modeled five-layer AHWP with SWS based on fabricated shapes and numerically evaluated their transmittance, modulation efficiency, and phase of the modulated signal using the rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA) method. We also added instrumental polarization (IP) as the figure-of-merit, which is a conversion of unpolarized to polarized light. IP creates an undesired modulated signal, which may cause a non-linear response in a bolometric detector. The typical cause of IP is the imperfection of AR SWS. From calculations, we did not find a significant difference in IP among the three cases. However, we found the impact on the modulation efficiency because the retardance depends on the SWS shapes. Furthermore, the retardance depends on frequency. We numerically analyzed the impact of the extra retardance from SWS on the overall AHWP performance. We show one of the three cases has the broadest modulation efficiency by compensating for the frequency dependence of the retardance from the SWS and the AHWP sapphire stacks.

Citation Download Citation

Ryota Takaku, Susanna Azzoni, Tommaso Ghigna, Takashi Hasebe, Thuong D. Hoang, Yurika Hoshino, Nobuhiko Katayama, Kunimoto Komatsu, Kuniaki Konishi, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, Tomotake Matsumura, Haruyuki Sakurai, Yuki Sakurai, Shinya Sugiyama, Noriko N. Yamasaki, and Junji Yumoto "Impact of the effective thickness from anti-reflective sub-wavelength structures in achromatic half-wave plate design", Proc. SPIE 12190, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 121902K (31 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629213

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available