RT Journal Article T1 Efficient broadband polarization retarder via shortcuts to adiabaticity A1 Wang, Wei A1 Ban, Yue A1 Chen, Xi AB The use of two-level atomic systems in quantum optics allows for the design of highly efficient and broadband achromatic retarders through the application of adiabatic passage and composite pulse techniques. In this work, we propose shortcuts to adiabaticity to improve broadband polarization retarders with shorter lengths. We achieve this by inversely engineering the relative refractive indices and further optimizing them with respect to the perturbation of input wavelength. Our results are compared with adiabatic and composite protocols, demonstrating that our method provides the advantage of integrating efficiency and robustness. SN 0146-9592 YR 2023 FD 2023-09-01 LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/4357 UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/4357 LA eng NO Wang , W , Ban , Y & Chen , X 2023 , ' Efficient broadband polarization retarder via shortcuts to adiabaticity ' , Optics Letters , vol. 48 , no. 17 , pp. 4472-4475 . https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.499058 DS TECNALIA Publications RD 29 sept 2024