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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 29, Issue 21, Pages 33037-33052Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.388675
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- Ministerstvo Skolstvi, Mladeze a Telovychovy [8C18002]
- Univerzita Palackeho v Olomouci [IGA-PrF-2020-009, IGA-PrF-2021-006]
- Grantova Agentura Ceske Republiky [17-26143S]
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (HYPER-U-P-S) [8C18002]
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Liquid crystal devices are essential in optical metrology, optical communications, polarization-sensitive imaging, and photonic information processing, and can achieve fast preparation and detection of polarization states with unprecedented accuracy.
Generation of particular polarization states of light, encoding information in polarization degree of freedom, and efficient measurement of unknown polarization are the key tasks in optical metrology, optical communications, polarization-sensitive imaging, and photonic information processing. Liquid crystal devices have proved to be indispensable for these tasks, though their limited precision and the requirement of a custom design impose a limit of practical applicability. Here we report fast preparation and detection of polarization states with unprecedented accuracy using liquid-crystal cells extracted from common twisted nematic liquid-crystal displays. To verify the performance of the device we use it to prepare dozens of polarization states with average fidelity 0.999(1) and average angle deviation 0.5(3) deg. Using four-projection minimum tomography as well as six-projection Pauli measurement, we measure polarization states employing the reported device with the average fidelity of 0.999(1). Polarization measurement data are processed by the maximum likelihood method to reach a valid estimate of the polarization state. In addition to the application in classical polarimetry, we also employ the reported liquid-crystal device fur full tomographic characterization of a three-mode Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entangled state produced by a photonic quantum processor. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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