摘要 |
<p>A polarization-maintaining cube corner retroreflector apparatus (200, 300, 400) that provides output light having a desired polarization state. The apparatus has a cube corner retroreflector (202, 302, 402) and a polarization-manipulating optical structure (204, 304, 306, 404, 406, 408) that provides output light having a desired polarization state. The polarization-manipulating optical structure (204, 304, 306, 404, 406, 408) can be one or more polarization-manipulating optical components (204, 304, 306, 404, 406, 408) such as a retarder, an optical rotator formed of a material having optical activity, an optical rotator formed of a material exhibiting the Faraday Effect, or some combination of these components.</p> |