λ/10 Waveplates and Retardation Plates

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Air Spaced Zero-Order Waveplates
from CASTECH, Inc.

• High Damage Threshold. • Wide Temperature Bandwidth. • Broad Spectral Bandwidth. • CASTECH's standard coatings are available. • Custom designs for other sizes and coatings are also available upon request [See More]

  • Surface Flatness: λ/10
  • Order: Zero
  • Retardation: Quarter (optional feature); Half (optional feature)
  • Material: Quartz
Multi-Order Waveplates
from CASTECH, Inc.

• Wide Temperature Bandwidth. • CASTECH's standard coatings are available. • Custom designs for other sizes and coatings are also available upon request. [See More]

  • Surface Flatness: λ/10
  • Order: Multiple
  • Retardation: Quarter (optional feature); Half (optional feature)
  • Material: Quartz
Large Zero Order Waveplate 38.1 & 50.8mm
from Tower Optical Corporation

Tower ’s Large aperture Zero order waveplates provide users with the capability of handling new applications where beam size and/or beam position moves over larger distances. The waveplates described here are air spaced, having a stainless steel spacer between two crystal quartz plates that... [See More]

  • Surface Flatness: λ/10
  • Wavelength Range: 355 to 1064
  • Order: Zero
  • Diameter: 38.1 to 76.2
Polarizer Optics
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
  • Material: BK7; SF2; UVgr FS
  • Polarizer Application: Infrared; Visible; Ultraviolet
  • Polarizer Features: Anti-Reflection Coating
Low Order Wave Plates
from EKSMA OPTICS

Made from high quallity optical grade crystalline quartz quarter wave and half wave retardation versions available suitable for high and low power laser applications. Rotate the direction of polarization ( λ/2) or convert linear into circular polarization or vice versa ( λ/4). EKSMA... [See More]

  • Surface Flatness: λ/10
  • Wavelength Range: 257 to 1550
  • Retardation: Quarter; Half
  • Clear Aperture: 17
Multi-Order Waveplates
from Rocky Mountain Instrument/RMI Laser

Waveplates are used in the synthesis and analysis of polarized light. Quarter Waveplates transform linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light, and vice-versa. Half Waveplates rotate the plane of polarization of linearly polarized light through any angle. They also convert left... [See More]

  • Surface Flatness: λ/10
  • Material: Quartz
  • Order: Multiple
  • Polarizer Features: Anti-Reflection Coating
Fresnal Rhomb Retarder
from Artifex Engineering

Unmatched performance in broad band, achromatic retardation at the expense of bulk. Specifications: Material: BK7 Grade A optical glass. Dimension Tolerance: +0.0/-0.2mm. Clear Aperture: >80%. Flatness: λ/10@ 632.8nm. Surface Quality: 20-10 scratch and dig. Wavelength Range: 400-2000 nm... [See More]

  • Surface Flatness: λ/10
  • Wavelength Range: 200 to 2000
  • Polarizer Application: Infrared (optional feature); Visible (optional feature); Ultraviolet (optional feature)
  • Material: BK7 (optional feature); SF2 (optional feature); UVgr FS (optional feature)
Multiple Order Waveplates All Sizes
from Tower Optical Corporation

Tower ’s multiple order waveplates consist of a single plates of laser quality crystal quartz. Because their retardation adds some integer number of waves to the desired fraction ( λ /4, λ /2), they are many times more sensitive to temperature and wavelength than zero order... [See More]

  • Surface Flatness: λ/10
  • Wavelength Range: 237 to 2021
  • Order: Multiple
  • Diameter: 10 to 50.8
Multiple Order Dual Wavelength Wave Plates
from EKSMA OPTICS

Operate at both first and second Nd:YAG laser harmonics. Retardation tolerance < λ/300 [See More]

  • Surface Flatness: λ/10
  • Order: Multiple
  • Retardation: Quarter; Half
  • Wavelength Range: 400 to 1064
Zero-Order Waveplates
from Rocky Mountain Instrument/RMI Laser

Waveplates are used in the synthesis and analysis of polarized light. Quarter Waveplates transform linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light, and vice-versa. Half Waveplates rotate the plane of polarization of linearly polarized light through any angle. They also convert left... [See More]

  • Surface Flatness: λ/10
  • Material: Quartz
  • Order: Zero
  • Polarizer Features: Anti-Reflection Coating