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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review A : Atomic, molecular, and optical physics [1990-2015] Année : 2017

Ultrabroadband gradient-pitch Bragg-Berry mirrors

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The realization of a geometric phase optical device operating over a broad spectral range is usually confronted with intrinsic limitations depending on the physical process at play. Here we propose to use chiral nematic liquid-crystal slabs with helical ordering that varies in three dimensions, namely, gradient-pitch cholesterics endowed with in-plane space-variant angular positioning of the supramolecular helix. By doing so, we show that the recently introduced Bragg-Berry mirrors [M. Rafayelyan and E. Brasselet, Opt. Lett. 41, 3972 (2016).] can be endowed with an ultrabroadband spectral range. Experimental demonstration is made in the case of ultrabroadband optical vortex generation in the visible domain. These results offer a practical solution to the polychromatic management of the orbital angular momentum of light combining the circular Bragg reflection of chiral media with the Berry phase.
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hal-01635088 , version 1 (14-11-2017)

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Mushegh Rafayelyan, Gonzague Agez, Etienne Brasselet. Ultrabroadband gradient-pitch Bragg-Berry mirrors. Physical Review A : Atomic, molecular, and optical physics [1990-2015], 2017, 96 (4), pp.043862. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevA.96.043862⟩. ⟨hal-01635088⟩
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