Spatial polarization structure of radiation formed by a retroreflector with nonmetallized faces

Polarization and far-field diffraction patterns of total internal reflection corner cubes

“…In a related vein, Arnold produced a series of special reports on methods for calculating CCR transfer functions [6]. Most recently, Sadovnikov and Sokolov (2009) [7], and later Sokolov and Murashkin (2011) [8], contribute a work most similar to our own, presenting diagrams of polarization and diffraction patterns at different input polarizations for the normal incidence case. However, the works were not readily adaptable to our needs because: 1) coordinate systems and plotting conventions are not clearly described; 2) the corner cubes considered do not appear to be circularly cut; and 3) the presentation is not geared toward instructing readers on how to develop their own analysis capability-as this work aims to do.…”

Formation of polarization-symmetrical beams using cube-corner reflectors

“…As is known, navigation satellites have one-axis orientation and because of that, taking into account velocity aberration, there is a need to provide ring-shaped distributions of intensity in the far field of reflected light with a determined angular radius [9][10][11][12][13]. Characteristics of retroreflector systems define the energy balance of laser ranging in great degree.…”

“…The far-field diffraction pattern depends on such CCR parameters as its size, reflecting properties of faces, angle between faces, and so on, as well as on the incident light's polarization state [9][10][11][12][13][14]. One efficient way of modifying the diffraction pattern is based on controlling the phase shift δ δ s − δ p between the components of E during light reflection at the CCR faces by means of their interference coatings.…”

“…Diffraction polarizing optical elements (DPOEs) [2,9], which produce different diffraction patterns for components of the electric vector E, are especially interesting. The cube-corner reflector (CCR) represents one such DPOE [9][10][11][12][13][14].…”

Structured light production with the use of polarization interferometer

“…Previously, lots of work was done on creating of the cube-corner reflectors (CCR) with a certain far-field diffraction pattern, with one of the effective ways to optimize it was using a special phase-shifting interference coating to create the required phase shift of the light is reflected on the cube-corner reflectors faces. [1][2][3][4][5][6] The primary goal of developing such cube-corner prisms was related to the task of measuring the distance from the ground to satellites. Today all GPS satellites, all Glonass satellites and many other satellites are equipped by the panels, containing several dozens or even several hundreds of special CCR elements.…”