λ/4 Optical Polarizers
from CeNing Optics Co., Ltd.
A crystal quartz plate with an optical axis perpendicular to surfaces can rotate the plane of polarization of an input beam of light. The rotation angle at a particular wavelength is a function of crystal quartz thickness. With particular thicknesses, the quartz plates can rotate the plane of... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Infrared; Visible
- Optical Polarizer: Linear Polarizer
- Polarizer Features: Anti-Reflection Coating
from CASTECH, Inc.
Achromatic Zero-Order waveplate is made from two different substrate Material such as crystal quartz and magnesium fluoride. For the single material waveplates the working wavelength is very limited because of the dispersion of the material. While Achromatic Zero-Order Waveplate use two different... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
from CASTECH, Inc.
Introduction: Non-Polarizing Beamsplitters divide incident beam into a specific percentage without altering the S and P-polarization state. CASTECH offers a variety of Non-Polarizing Beamsplitters in configuration including UV Laser Line Non-Polarizing Beamsplitter Cubes, Laser Line Non-Polarizing... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Ultraviolet
- Optical Polarizer: Beam Splitter
- Beam Deviation: 5
from CASTECH, Inc.
Polarizing Beamsplitters divide unpolarized beam into two orthogonal, linearly polarized parts. A wide variety of Polarizing Beamsplitters configurations are offered by CASTECH, including UV Laser Line Polarizing Beamsplitter Cubes, Laser Line Polarizing Beamsplitter Cubes, Broadband Polarizing... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Ultraviolet
- Optical Polarizer: Beam Splitter
- Extinction Ratio: 500 to 1000
from CASTECH, Inc.
• High Polarization Purity. • Wide Wavelength Range. • High UV Transmission. • Available with two, one or no escape ports for extra power capacity. • Suitable for high power applications [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 200 to 270
- Optical Polarizer: Calcite Polarizer
- Clear Aperture: 10
from CASTECH, Inc.
• High Polarization Purity. • Wide Wavelength Range. • High Total Transmission [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 200 to 270
- Optical Polarizer: Calcite Polarizer
- Clear Aperture: 10
from CASTECH, Inc.
• Large Acceptance Angle: Special design for the ratio of l/A (length/aperture) guarantees the wide acceptance angle. • High Polarization Purity. • Suitable for low power applications. [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 350 to 2300
- Optical Polarizer: Calcite Polarizer
- Clear Aperture: 8
from CASTECH, Inc.
Non-Polarizing Beamsplitters divide incident beam into a specific percentage without altering the S and P-polarization state. CASTECH offers a variety of Non-Polarizing Beamsplitters in configuration including UV Laser Line Non-Polarizing Beamsplitter Cubes, Laser Line Non-Polarizing Beamsplitter... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Ultraviolet
- Optical Polarizer: Beam Splitter
- Beam Deviation: 5
from CASTECH, Inc.
Polarizing Beamsplitters divide unpolarized beam into two orthogonal, linearly polarized parts. A wide variety of Polarizing Beamsplitters configurations are offered by CASTECH, including UV Laser Line Polarizing Beamsplitter Cubes, Laser Line Polarizing Beamsplitter Cubes, Broadband Polarizing... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Ultraviolet
- Optical Polarizer: Beam Splitter
- Extinction Ratio: 100
from CASTECH, Inc.
• Wide Wavelength Range. • Large Field Angle. • High Extinction Ratio. • Guarantee a wide transmission range, especially, suitable for UV applications. • Split the ordinary and extraordinary ray, but only extraordinary beam is deviated. [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 220 to 900
- Optical Polarizer: Calcite Polarizer
- Clear Aperture: 8
from CASTECH, Inc.
Telecom waveplates are designed and manufactured specifically to meet the demanding requirements of telecom component designers. CASTECH provides telecom waveplate with many kinds of sizes , they are 91.5µm thick for the half-waveplate and 45.7µm thick for the quarter-waveplate at 1550nm. The... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
from CASTECH, Inc.
• Wide Wavelength Range. • Both ordinary and extraordinary beams are deviated. • Suitable for low power application and where the large deviations is required. [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 350 to 2300
- Optical Polarizer: Calcite Polarizer
- Clear Aperture: 10
from Tower Optical Corporation
Tower ’s achromatic waveplate (AWP) is similar to a zero-order waveplate, which is made from two pieces of crystal quartz except that the AWP is composed of one piece of crystal quartz and one piece of magnesium fluoride, MgF2. Both of these materials are birefringent, however, by proper... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/2; λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 465 to 1650
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Clear Aperture: 12
from Rainbow Research Optics, Inc.
Your One-Stop Source for Polarizer Optics. From prototype to production, Rainbow Research Optics, Inc. (RROI) manufactures and delivers precision grade and commercial quality polarizer optics and beamsplitters to address applications in the ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS), and infrared (IR)... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4; λ/10
- Polarizer Application: Infrared; Visible; Ultraviolet
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Polarizer Features: Anti-Reflection Coating
from EKSMA OPTICS
Achromatic waveplates are made from two different materials: crystal quartz and magnesium fluoride with highly efficient broadband antireflection coatings in an air spaced design. Retardation tolerance of our achromatic waveplates is better than λ/100 over the entire wavelength range. The... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 450 to 1650
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Clear Aperture: 12.7
from Qioptiq
Retardations: λ/2 and λ/4. Three different broad wavelength ranges. Cemented. Mounted versions fit to Microbench. Transmission > 86 %. Uncoated; coating available on request. Surface flatness: λ/4 at 633 nm (over clear aperture). Surface quality: 40-20 (5/ 2 x 0.16 according... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Infrared; Visible
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Wavelength Range: 400 to 1600
from Ross Optical Industries
The low (multiple) order waveplate is designed to give a retardance of several full waves, plus the desired fraction. This results in a single, physically robust component with desired performance. However, even small changes in wavelength or temperature will result in significant changes in the... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Infrared; Visible; Ultraviolet
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Wavelength Range: 266 to 1550
from Daheng New Epoch Technology, Inc.
Achromatic Waveplates provide a constant phase shift independent of the wavelength of light that is used. Achromatic Waveplates are formed by using two different birefringent crystalline material quartz and magnesium fluoride. The relative phase difference between the two axes is either λ/4... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/2; λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 450 to 2100
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Clear Aperture: 18
from Artifex Engineering
Glan Laser prism polarizer is made of two same birefringent material prisms that are assembled with an air space. The polarizer is a modification of the Glan Taylor type and is designed to have less reflection loss at the prism junction. The polarizer with two escape windows allows the rejected beam... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Infrared (optional feature); Visible (optional feature); Ultraviolet (optional feature)
- Optical Polarizer: Calcite Polarizer
- Wavelength Range: 200 to 4000
from Arcoptix S.A
Most SOP generators found on the market are expensive and based on fiber optics technology. The Arcoptix Free space Polarization State Generator (PSG) or also called Eigen state generator (EGS), is a transmitive free space optical system that permits to generate any arbitrary polarization state... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 350 to 1000
from Tower Optical Corporation
Tower Optical offers this second series of Achromatic Waveplates (AWP ’s) which are built using 25.4 mm substrates of crystal quartz and magnesium fluoride. These substrates are cemented together. This technique helps to control costs by reducing the number of surfaces requiring AR coating... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/2; λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 465 to 1650
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Clear Aperture: 23
from EKSMA OPTICS
This Zero Order Air-Spaced Plate, made of single crystal quartz, has a clear aperture of 17 mm. For high power laser application. [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/2; λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 257 to 1064
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Clear Aperture: 17
from Qioptiq
Polarizing cube composed of two air-spaced calcite prisms with their optical axes aligned mutually parallel. Extremely large extinction ratios. Virtually no deviation of extraordinary ray. Mounted, outer diamteter fits to Microbench. Uncoated. Length / aperture ratio = 0.85. Surface flatness :... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Infrared; Visible; Ultraviolet
- Optical Polarizer: Circular Polarizer
- Wavelength Range: 250 to 2300
from Ross Optical Industries
Made of a single quartz plate that is very thin, true zero order waveplates are provided either by themselves as a single plate for high damage threshold applications (greater than 1 GW/cm2), or as a cemented plate on a BK7 substrate to provide strength. [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Infrared; Visible
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Wavelength Range: 532 to 1550
from Daheng New Epoch Technology, Inc.
Crystalline quartz is frequently used for the high quality retardation applications. Air Space Quartz Zero-Order Wave plates consist of two precision polished quartz plates. The fast axes of two plates are orthogonal to each other. The wave plates are insensitive to wavelength, temperature and angle... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/2; λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 355 to 1064
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
from Artifex Engineering
The Rochon polarizer is one of the earliest designs, which is made of two birefringent material prisms cemented together. Both ordinary and extraordinary beams propagate collinearly down the optic axis in the first prism under the ordinary refractive index. Upon entering the second prism the... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Infrared (optional feature); Visible (optional feature); Ultraviolet (optional feature)
- Optical Polarizer: Calcite Polarizer
- Wavelength Range: 190 to 4000
from Arcoptix S.A
The liquid crystal variable phase retarder (or phase shifter) is a transmissive element with an electrically tunable optical phase retardance. Optical retardation is often obtained with piezoelectric mirrors. However this option is not ideal if robust and compact design is necessary. This product... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 350 to 1700
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Clear Aperture: 10
from EKSMA OPTICS
Zero order wave plates are used to rotate the direction of polarization (with λ/2 plates) or convert linear into circular polarization or vice versa (with λ/4 plates). Zero order wave plates are made from two thin sections which are polished to different thicknesses to have retardation... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/2; λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 257 to 1550
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Clear Aperture: 17
from Qioptiq
Composed of two cemented calcite prisms with their optical axes aligned parallel to their hypotenuse faces. Extremely large extinction ratios. Angular fields are larger than those of Glan-Taylor prisms. Angular field symmetric about prism assembly axis. Virtually no deviation of extraordinary ray. [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Infrared; Visible; Ultraviolet
- Optical Polarizer: Circular Polarizer
- Wavelength Range: 350 to 2300
from Ross Optical Industries
The zero order waveplate is designed to give a retardance of zero full waves, plus the desired fraction. Zero Order Waveplates show better performance than multiple order waveplates. They show a broader bandwidth and a lower sensitivity to temperature and wavelength changes and should be considered... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Infrared; Visible; Ultraviolet
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Wavelength Range: 266 to 1550
from Artifex Engineering
The Wollaston polarizer is made of two birefringent material prisms that are cemented together. The deviations of the ordinary and extraordinary beams are nearly symmetrical about the input beam axis, so that the Wollaston polarizing beam splitter has approximately twice the deviation of the Rochon. [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Infrared (optional feature); Visible (optional feature); Ultraviolet (optional feature)
- Optical Polarizer: Calcite Polarizer
- Wavelength Range: 200 to 2300
from Qioptiq
Made of crystal quartz. Antireflective coating (R < 0.2 % at central wavelength). Wavefront distortion: λ/8 (at 632.8 nm). Surface quality: 2 x 0.063 (20/10 scratch and dig). Parallelism better than 1". Retardation tolerance λ/500 (typical). Type S: Single plate (multiple order). [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/2; λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Infrared; Visible
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Wavelength Range: 488 to 1064
from Qioptiq
Retardation sheets are achromatic sheets of 0.3 mm thickness. These sheets work according to conventional Gypsum- or Mica plates. Quarter-waveplate sheet especially suitable in the wavelength range of 480 - 640 nm. Please combine with a linear polarizer (in an angle of 45 °) to generate circular... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Polarizer Application: Visible
- Optical Polarizer: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
- Wavelength Range: 480 to 640
from Qioptiq
Special beamsplitter coatings yield highly polarized transmitted beams. Combine extreme spectral bandwidth with superb extinction ratio and transmittance. Extinction ratio transmission > 10,000:1 ( ΦTp : ΦTs) at ± 2 °. No angular or lateral deflection of transmitted beams. Less... [See More]
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Wavelength Range: 390 to 1700
- Polarizer Application: Infrared; Visible
- Extinction Ratio: 10000