Lina Quan1
Virginia Tech1
Light polarization and manipulation are important properties in many applications such as optical modulators, waveplates and also can generate qubits for quantum information technologies. To control the polarization, materials need to be response under polarized light due to either dichroism or birefringence. Although there are many candidate materials to perform the optical polarization effect, however, to achieve a broad range of wavelengths with homogeneous polarization is challenging. In this talk, I will present a new optical retardation material based on low-cost, non-toxic, organic-inorganic hybrid copper halide systems that exhibit strong optical anisotropy across a broad wavelength range. Such a broad degree of polarization control in hybrid copper halides offers new opportunities in polarization detectors and related applications.