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Design, fabrication and investigation of a subwavelength axicon for terahertz beam polarization transforming

S.N. Khonina1,2, K.N. Tukmakov1,2, S.A. Degtyarev1,2, A.S. Reshetnikov1, V.S. Pavelyev1,2, B.A. Knyazev1,3,4, Yu.Yu. Choporova1,3,4

1 Samara National Research University,
443086, Russia, Samara, Moskovskoye Shosse 34,  
2 IPSI RAS – Branch of the FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics” RAS,  
Molodogvardeyskaya 151, 443001, Samara, Russia,  
3 Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia,  
4 Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

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DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-2019-43-5-756-764

Pages: 756-764.

Full text of article: Russian language.

Abstract:
A silicon subwavelengh terahertz axicon has been designed, fabricated, and investigated by methods of numerical and optical experiments. The research has been performed on a free-electron laser workstation NOVOFEL (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of SB RAS, Novosibirsk). Diffractive and polarization features of realized element have been investigated.

Keywords:
diffractive optical element, free electron laser, terahertz radiation, subwavelength axicon.

Citation:
Khonina SN, Tukmakov KN, Degtyarev SA, Reshetnikov AS, Pavelyev VS, Knyazev BA, Choporova YuYu. Design, fabrication and investigation of a silicon subwavelength terahertz axicon. Computer Optics 2019; 43(5): 756-764. DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-2019-43-5-756-764.

Acknowledgements:
This work was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation  under RSF grant No. 19-72-20202.

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