Center for Optical Research and Education (CORE), Utsunomiya University Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Kiyonobu TAMURA
Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba
Takashi FUKUDA
Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Akira EMOTO
Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Toyohiko YATAGAI
Center for Optical Research and Education (CORE), Utsunomiya University Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba
Optical anisotropy was induced in azobenzene copolymer film using linearly or elliptically polarized laser beams. The Jones matrix of the anisotropic film was calculated from the change in polarization of the probe light. Two eigenpolarization states were obtained from the matrix. These two eigenstates are useful as a polarization basis for a polarization-tunable component.
