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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: λ/2 retardation. Higher orders cause retardation to vary dramatically with wavelength. Wave plates are sensitive to temperature changes. A typical multiple-order wave plate has a temperature coefficient of 0.0015 λ/°C, compared to 0.000 1λ/°C for a zero-order wave
- Wavelength Range: 266 nm
- Clear Aperture: 22.8 mm
- Diameter: 25.400000000000002 mm
- Thickness: 0.5 mm
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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: λ/2 retardation. Higher orders cause retardation to vary dramatically with wavelength. Wave plates are sensitive to temperature changes. A typical multiple-order wave plate has a temperature coefficient of 0.0015 λ/°C, compared to 0.000 1λ/°C for a zero-order wave
- Wavelength Range: 532 nm
- Clear Aperture: 22.8 mm
- Diameter: 25.400000000000002 mm
- Thickness: 1 mm
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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: or λ/2 retardation. Higher orders cause retardation to vary dramatically with wavelength. Wave plates are sensitive to temperature changes. A typical multiple-order wave plate has a temperature coefficient of 0.0015λ/°C, compared to 0.0001λ/°C for a zero-order wave
- Wavelength Range: 488 nm
- Clear Aperture: 11.4 mm
- Diameter: 12.700000000000001 mm
- Thickness: 1 mm
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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: or λ/2 retardation. Higher orders cause retardation to vary dramatically with wavelength. Wave plates are sensitive to temperature changes. A typical multiple-order wave plate has a temperature coefficient of 0.0015λ/°C, compared to 0.0001λ/°C for a zero-order wave
- Wavelength Range: 532 nm
- Clear Aperture: 11.4 mm
- Diameter: 12.700000000000001 mm
- Thickness: 1 mm
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Supplier: EKSMA OPTICS
Description: Made from high quallity optical grade crystalline quartz quarter wave and half wave retardation versions available suitable for high and low power laser applications. Retardation plates are supplied mounted and have multilayer dielectric anti-reflection coating on both
- Wavelength Range: 257 to 1,550 nm
- Clear Aperture: 17.000000000000004 mm
- Surface Flatness: λ/10
- Retardation: Half Wave (λ/2), Quarter Wave (λ/4)
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Supplier: EKSMA OPTICS
Description: 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).
- Wavelength Range: 257 to 1,550 nm
- Clear Aperture: 17.000000000000004 mm
- Surface Flatness: λ/10
- Retardation: Half Wave (λ/2), Quarter Wave (λ/4)
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Supplier: EKSMA OPTICS
Description: 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
- Wavelength Range: 257 to 1,550 nm
- Clear Aperture: 17.000000000000004 mm
- Surface Flatness: λ/2, λ/4
- Retardation: Half Wave (λ/2), Quarter Wave (λ/4)
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Supplier: Kyocera Corporation
Description: Features • Made of high quality synthetic quartz crystal • Available with large size aperture • Design for reduction of phase retardation dispersion is available Applications • LCD projector • Various test equipment • Various laser devices • Optical unit for manufacturing equipment
- Wavelength Range: 350 to 2,100 nm
- Retardation: Half Wave (λ/2), Quarter Wave (λ/4)
- Polarizer Application: Infrared, Ultraviolet, Visible
- Material: Quartz
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Supplier: EKSMA OPTICS
Description: This Zero Order Air-Spaced Plate, made of single crystal quartz, has a clear aperture of 17 mm. For high power laser application.
- Wavelength Range: 257 to 1,064 nm
- Clear Aperture: 17.000000000000004 mm
- Surface Flatness: λ/2, λ/4
- Retardation: Half Wave (λ/2), Quarter Wave (λ/4)
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Supplier: Edmund Optics Inc.
Description: Multiple Ranges Available Flat Response Over Each Broad Spectral Range 1/4λ and 1/2λ Retardance Unlike standard waveplates, Achromatic Waveplates (Retarders) provide a constant phase shift independent of the wavelength of light that is used. This wavelength independence is achieved by using two
- Wavelength Range: 610 to 850 nm
- Clear Aperture: 11.500000000000002 mm
- Thickness: 8 mm
- Surface Quality: 20-10 Scratch / Dig
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Supplier: Electro Optical Components, Inc.
Description: wave voltage (using one quarter the electrical power of a half wave switching system) and no d.c. voltage is applied to the Pockels cell which extends its operating lifetime. However, the drawback is the additional effort required to mount and align the wave-plate
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Description: 190-7000nm (magnesium fluoride), and half/quarter/octadic wave retardation. Half Zero Order Waveplates are oriented for rotation the polarization plane of linearly polarized light, while the Quarter Zero Order Waveplates are for transform linearly polarized light into circularly
- Wavelength Range: 1,310 nm
- Clear Aperture: 18 mm
- Features: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
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Description: 190-7000nm (magnesium fluoride), and half/quarter/octadic wave retardation. Half Zero Order Waveplates are oriented for rotation the polarization plane of linearly polarized light, while the Quarter Zero Order Waveplates are for transform linearly polarized light into circularly
- Wavelength Range: 850 nm
- Clear Aperture: 18 mm
- Features: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
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Description: 190-7000nm (magnesium fluoride), and half/quarter/octadic wave retardation. Half Zero Order Waveplates are oriented for rotation the polarization plane of linearly polarized light, while the Quarter Zero Order Waveplates are for transform linearly polarized light into circularly
- Wavelength Range: 405 nm
- Clear Aperture: 18 mm
- Features: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
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Description: 190-7000nm (magnesium fluoride), and half/quarter/octadic wave retardation. Half Zero Order Waveplates are oriented for rotation the polarization plane of linearly polarized light, while the Quarter Zero Order Waveplates are for transform linearly polarized light into circularly
- Wavelength Range: 532 nm
- Clear Aperture: 18 mm
- Features: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
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Supplier: Electro Optical Components, Inc.
Description: For a given plate thickness a low order waveplate will operate as a quaterwave, halfwave and full wave plate at different wavelengths. By selecting the thickness it is possible to achieve a dual order plate giving for example, halfwave retardation at 1064 nm and fullwave
- Wavelength Range: 532 nm
- Retardation: Half Wave (λ/2), Quarter Wave (λ/4)
- Polarizer Application: Infrared, Visible
- Features: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
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Supplier: Smalley
Description: the wave crests aligned. The need to use a key locating device, or to insert a shim between individual springs is not necessary. Because the spring is integrally formed, the wave peaks hold their configuration. As a replacement for helical compression springs, Crest-to-Crest springs
- Inside Diameter: 1.6 inch
- Outside Diameter: 2 inch
- Thickness / Working Height: 0.018 inch
- Finish: Black Oxide, Zinc Plated
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Supplier: Qioptiq
Description: Thickness < 0.5 mm ---------------------------- Type D: Double plate (zero order) Optically contacted quartz plates Retardation λ/2 or λ/4 Custom retardation plates for higher quantities on request.
- Wavelength Range: 488 to 1,064 nm
- Clear Aperture: 9 to 19 mm
- Diameter: 10.000000000000002 to 20.000000000000004 mm
- Thickness: 0.5 mm
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Supplier: NDK
Description: The bonding-type plate enables the influence on phaseaccuracy caused by variations in optical rotation and the laserincident angle to be ignored. Therefore, it can be embedded inan optical system more easily.
- Transmittance: 98 %
- Beam Deviation: 60.00000000000012 arcsec
- Operating Temperature: -40 to 85 C
- Diameter: 5.000000000000001 to 10.000000000000002 mm
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Supplier: Electro Optical Components, Inc.
Description: different propagating velocities. Most low order plates lie in a thickness range of 100-200μm (At 1.06μm a first order λ/2 plate is approximately 182 μm thick). Low order plates are generally used because they are relatively temperature insensitive compared to high multiple
- Wavelength Range: 220 to 2,800 nm
- Clear Aperture: 10.000000000000002 to 30 mm
- Transmittance: 92 %
- Diameter: 25 to 40.00000000000001 mm
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Supplier: Edmund Optics Inc.
Description: Broad Spectral Range 1/100λ Surface Accuracy ¼λ and ½λ Retardance Precision Achromatic Waveplates (Retarders) consist of a polymer stack layered between two precision BK7 windows, and are available in standard ¼λ and ½λ options for common visible and NIR wavelengths. These waveplates (retarders)
- Wavelength Range: 735 to 985 nm
- Clear Aperture: 10.16 mm
- Beam Deviation: 60.00000000000012 arcsec
- Operating Temperature: -20 to 50 C
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Supplier: Edmund Optics Inc.
Description: Broad Spectral Range 1/100λ Surface Accuracy ¼λ and ½λ Retardance Precision Achromatic Waveplates (Retarders) consist of a polymer stack layered between two precision BK7 windows, and are available in standard ¼λ and ½λ options for common visible and NIR wavelengths. These waveplates (retarders)
- Wavelength Range: 630 to 835 nm
- Clear Aperture: 10.16 mm
- Beam Deviation: 60.00000000000012 arcsec
- Operating Temperature: -20 to 50 C
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Supplier: Ross Optical Industries
Description: 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.
- Wavelength Range: 980 to 1,550 nm
- Diameter: 10.000000000000002 mm
- Thickness: 0.00004 to 0.00009 mm
- Surface Flatness: λ/2
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Supplier: Edmund Optics Inc.
Description: ¼λ and ½λ Retardance Excellent Angular Field of View Birefringent Polymer Stack Precision Zero Order Waveplates (Retarders) feature carefully aligned birefringent polymer sheets laminated between two precision BK7 windows, and are available in standard ¼λ and ½λ options for common visible and NIR
- Wavelength Range: 800 nm
- Clear Aperture: 10.16 mm
- Beam Deviation: 60.00000000000012 arcsec
- Operating Temperature: -20 to 50 C
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Supplier: Artifex Engineering
Description: Standard Wave: quater wave (λ/4), half wave (λ/2) Coating: uncoated for standard, AR coating available Working Wavelength: 450-650nm, 550-750nm, 650-1100nm, 900-2100nm
- Wavelength Range: 450 to 2,100 nm
- Material: Achromatic
- Polarizer Features: Antireflective Coating
- Retardation: Half Wave (λ/2), Quarter Wave (λ/4)
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Supplier: CRYSTECH, Inc.
Description: CRYSTECH is dedicated to manufacturing high precision waveplate for solid-state laser systems. CRYSTECH offers quarter- and half-wave plates in a variety of options including Multiple Order Waveplates, Optical Cemented Zero-Order Waveplates, Air-paced Zero-Order Waveplates, True
- Surface Flatness: λ/8
- Surface Quality: 20-10 Scratch / Dig
- Retardation: Half Wave (λ/2), Quarter Wave (λ/4)
- Features: Other Material, Waveplate / Retardation Plate
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Supplier: HG Optronics, Inc.
Description: difference when the two beams recombine. Half Waveplate A half waveplate rotates linearly polarized light to any desired orientation. The rotation angle is twice the angle between the incident polarized light and the optical axis. Therefore, the half waveplate can be used as a
- Retardation: Half Wave (λ/2), Quarter Wave (λ/4)
- Order: Multiple Order, Zero Order
- Features: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
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Supplier: Ross Optical Industries
Description: 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.
- Wavelength Range: 532 to 1,550 nm
- Diameter: 15 mm
- Thickness: 1 mm
- Surface Flatness: λ/2
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Supplier: Foctek Photonics, Inc.
Description: Unlike standard waveplates, Achromatic Waveplates, AWP, provide a constant phase shift independent of the wavelength of light that is used. This wavelength independence is achieved by using two different crystalline materials to yield quarter- or half-wave retardation over a broad
- Wavelength Range: 450 to 1,650 nm
- Thickness: 8 mm
- Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
- Material: Achromatic, Quartz
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Supplier: IHS ESDU
Description: half-waves into which the plate buckles along its length is also shown. The buckling stress coefficient relates the buckling stress to the modulus of elasticity multiplied by the square of the ratio of plate thickness to width. All edges are assumed to remain straight,
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Supplier: CASTECH, Inc.
Description: 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
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
- Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
- Retardation: Half Wave (λ/2), Quarter Wave (λ/4)
- Material: Quartz
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Supplier: Tower Optical Corporation
Description: Super Large Zero Order Waveplates – 76.2mm Laser Quality Crystal Quartz Air Spaced for High Power Clear Aperture of 73mm Mounted or Unmounted Retardations of 1/2 and 1/4 Wave Waveplates are AR Coated Standard Wavelengths Custom Wavelengths available Rugged 4” Mounting Ring A new standard in
- Wavelength Range: 405 to 1,064 nm
- Clear Aperture: 73.00000000000001 mm
- Diameter: 76.19995885202222 mm
- Surface Flatness: λ/10
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Supplier: Artifex Engineering
Description: Low sensitivity to wavelength and temperature. Also for telecom applications. True Zero Order Waveplates-Cemented This type of zero order waveplate is constructed of a true zero order waveplate and a BK7 substrate. As the waveplate is very thin and fragile, the Bk7 plate's function is to
- Wavelength Range: 532 to 1,550 nm
- Diameter: 10.000000000000002 to 30 mm
- Polarizer Features: Antireflective Coating
- Material: BK7 Glass
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Supplier: IHS ESDU
Description: the plate divided by the product of its thickness and radius). The graphs are divided into regions in each of which the number of buckle half-waves along the length is indicated. The formula from which the curves were calculated is also included. A worked example illustrates the
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Waveplate Tutorial
Waveplates, also known as retardation-plates or phase shifters, are flat optical components designed to manipulatethe polarization state of light waves. They consist of a birefringent material, which has different refractive indices for different polarization directions. When a polarized light wave
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Characteristics Of Phase-Compensation Techniques In Magnetooptical Read-Back Systems
A phase compensator is used in method II between S1 and the half wave plate , as shown in Figure 2.
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The SCUBA-2 polarimeter
The three optical elements composing the polarimeter are a calibration polarizer that is used only during calibration, a broadband half wave plate made of five slabs of sapphire that rotates at a speed of 5 Hz, and an analyzer polarizer.
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First-order periodic error correction: validation for constant and non-constant velocities with variable error magnitudes
Periodic error magnitude and type is varied through independent rotations of a half wave plate and polarizer located in the measurement path; experimental magnitudes for constant velocity conditions are compared to the analytical model described by Cosijns et al.
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Accurate Calibration of Raman Systems
D.1 Polarization Aberrations Induced by the Half Wave Plate .
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Achromatic Retardation Plates
Although occasionally mistaken for an achromatic half wave plate it is significantly different.
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Hamilton’s theory of turns and a new geometrical representation for polarization optics
The synthesis of optical rotators using a pair of half wave plates is analyzed, and the importance of such a synthesis in the experimental measurement of the Aharonov-Anandan .
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A High Power Single-Bridge SP4T Waveguide Reciprocal Ferrite Switch
tation angles are assumed to be exactly correct, the "long" axes are assumed to have identical insertion phases, and the differen- HALF WAVE PLATE ORIENT .
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A high transmission power stabilizer using brewster window for a UV pulsed laser in long-term drift
In the case of a 0° angle of a half wave plate , we represent the original intensity of p-pol and s-pol as 1 and 0 respectively.
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From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and more
As in HAPPEX there is an insertable half wave plate to provide slow he- licity reversal, which suppresses certain systematics; there also is a rotatable half wave plate for control of position and intensity systematics.