Nanophotonic Extreme Ultraviolet Polarimeter
Abstract
Nanophotonic engineering has revolutionized how we manipulate the polarization of visible light. Here, we extend such control to extreme ultraviolet radiation, the spectral region of attosecond science and semiconductor lithography, where transmissive optical elements are lacking. We implement channel waveguides that restrict incident 41-nm-wavelength light to a few modes with defined spatial profiles and propagation constants. By designing the propagation-length-dependent interference of two eigenmodes, we achieve polarization-dependent forward scattering, which we exploit to create a transmissive nanophotonic analyzer that resolves the polarization axis and spectrum of extreme ultraviolet light from a single measurement. With a 0.9°-sensitivity for polarization rotations in a 1-second measurement and single-shot capability, the device opens new experimental opportunities in ultrafast magneto-optic spectroscopy and at accelerator-based light sources.
Related
- Spatially resolved extreme ultraviolet emission and opacity effects in laser-produced zinc plasmas
- Enhanced Extreme Ultraviolet Emission from Laser-heated Blow-Off Tin Plasmas
- A table-top few-femtosecond broadband extreme-ultraviolet absorption spectrometer with cryogenic cooling
- Extreme-ultraviolet spectroscopy using quantum logic: a feasibility study for the 1S-2S transition in singly-ionized helium
- Design of a Lamb-Shift Polarimeter for 3He Ions and Atoms
BibTeX
@misc{kulter2026nanophotonic,
title = {{Nanophotonic Extreme Ultraviolet Polarimeter}},
author = {Anna Kulter and Lorenz Weiß and David J. Grafinger and Alexander Sagar Grossek and Rodolfo Previdi and Martin Schultze and Marcus Ossiander},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.27705},
eprint = {2610.27705},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27705},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Nanophotonic Extreme Ultraviolet Polarimeter
AU - Anna Kulter
AU - Lorenz Weiß
AU - David J. Grafinger
AU - Alexander Sagar Grossek
AU - Rodolfo Previdi
AU - Martin Schultze
AU - Marcus Ossiander
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/20
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.27705
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27705
AB - Nanophotonic engineering has revolutionized how we manipulate the polarization of visible light. Here, we extend such control to extreme ultraviolet radiation, the spectral region of attosecond science and semiconductor lithography, where transmissive optical elements are lacking. We implement channel waveguides that restrict incident 41-nm-wavelength light to a few modes with defined spatial profiles and propagation constants. By designing the propagation-length-dependent interference of two eigenmodes, we achieve polarization-dependent forward scattering, which we exploit to create a transmissive nanophotonic analyzer that resolves the polarization axis and spectrum of extreme ultraviolet light from a single measurement. With a 0.9°-sensitivity for polarization rotations in a 1-second measurement and single-shot capability, the device opens new experimental opportunities in ultrafast magneto-optic spectroscopy and at accelerator-based light sources.
ER -