Aerogel Waveplates

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2009-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/0905.1922v1

Optics Express Vol. 17, Iss. 13, pp. 10599 - 10605 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Optics Express

Scientific paper

10.1364/OE.17.010599

Optical transmission measurements were made on 98% porosity silica aerogel samples under various degrees of uniaxial strain. Uniaxially compressed aerogels exhibit large birefringence, proportional to the amount of compression, up to the 15% strain studied. The birefringence is mostly reversible and reproducible through multiple compression-decompression cycles. Our study demonstrates that uniaxially strained high porosity aerogels can be used as tunable waveplates in a broad spectral range.

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