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Design of a narrow band-pass birefringent filter for visible range

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In this communication, the construction and transmission characteristics of a narrow band-pass birefringent filter have been investigated. The filter is formed by a combination of two sets of retarders with a polariser in between, and two linear polarisers placed at the two extreme ends. The sets of retarders are chosen to be a cascaded fan-type Solc filter having two different kinds of retardations, resulting in filtering characteristics better than those birefringent filters proposed for the visible range. The performance of this proposed filter is better in terms of effective suppression of side peak amplitudes as well as reduction of bandwidth with less number of waveplates. This birefringent filter can be used inside a linear resonator.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Global Institute of Management and Technology, Krishnagar, Nadia, 741 102, India

    Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, B. P. Poddar Institute of Management and Technology, 137, VIP Road, Kolkata, 700 052, India

    Arijit Saha

  3. Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta, JD-2, Sector 3, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, 700 098, India

    Kallol Bhattacharya

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Mukhopadhyay, N., Saha, A. & Bhattacharya, K. Design of a narrow band-pass birefringent filter for visible range. Pramana - J Phys 95, 142 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-021-02175-0

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