Open AccessOptical data shifting using polarisation properties of light
Author(s) -
Chattopadhyay Tanay
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
iet optoelectronics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.379
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1751-8776
pISSN - 1751-8768
DOI - 10.1049/iet-opt.2014.0096
Subject(s) - optics , beam splitter , electronic circuit , binary number , 3d optical data storage , splitter , binary data , materials science , light beam , logic gate , optoelectronics , computer science , physics , mathematics , algorithm , laser , arithmetic , quantum mechanics
Various optical binary data shifting circuits have been designed here by using a polarising beam splitter, a half‐wave plate and liquid crystal‐phase spatial light modulators. These circuits are based on the polarisation properties of light. Here, p‐polarised light (logic value ‘1’) and no light (logic value ‘0’) are considered as optical binary bits. Numerical simulations have been performed to find the insertion loss using the data sheet of some commercially available optical products.