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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: 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 plate, so tighter temperature control will be
- Wavelength Range: 780 nm
- Clear Aperture: 11.4 mm
- Diameter: 12.700000000000001 mm
- Thickness: 1 mm
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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: 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 0.0001 λ/°C for a zero-order wave plate, so tighter temperature control will
- Wavelength Range: 1,064 nm
- Clear Aperture: 11.4 mm
- Diameter: 12.700000000000001 mm
- Thickness: 0.5 mm
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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: 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 plate, so tighter temperature control will be
- Wavelength Range: 413 nm
- Clear Aperture: 11.4 mm
- Diameter: 12.700000000000001 mm
- Thickness: 1 mm
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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: 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 plate, so tighter temperature control will be
- Wavelength Range: 488 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: American Polarizers, Inc.
Description: API’s quarter wave retarders are chromatic single layer polymer films offering great performance and clarity. Our wave retarders are optimized at 560nm (140nm OPD). More cost effective than traditional wave plates, our wave retarders feature uniform
- Thickness: 0.10159994513602963 mm
- Transmittance: 92 %
- Operating Temperature: -50 to 65 C
- Features: Other Material
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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: Probably the most common and attractive mode of operation of an electro-optic Q-switch is in “pulsed quarter wave” mode. In this mode a quarter wave retardation plate is inserted between the Pockels cell and the rear cavity mirror. Light passing through the Pockels
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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: 1,030 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: 633 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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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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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: 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: 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: 920 to 1,240 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: 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: 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: 1,480 to 1,550 nm
- Diameter: 20.000000000000004 mm
- Thickness: 0.00004 to 0.00009 mm
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
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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: 1,550 nm
- Clear Aperture: 10.16 mm
- Beam Deviation: 60.00000000000012 arcsec
- Operating Temperature: -20 to 50 C
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Supplier: Qioptiq
Description: 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
- Wavelength Range: 480 to 640 nm
- Diameter: 12.700000000000001 to 31.500000000000004 mm
- Thickness: 0.30000000000000004 mm
- Surface Flatness: 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: adjustable polarization rotator. The half waveplate is used to rotate the plane of polarization, electro-optic modulation and as a variable ratio beamsplitter when used in conjunction with a polarization cube. Quarter Waveplate When linearly polarized light is input at 45deg to the axis of a
- Retardation: Half Wave (λ/2), Quarter Wave (λ/4)
- Order: Multiple Order, Zero Order
- Features: Waveplate / Retardation Plate
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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: Arcoptix S.A
Description: 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
- Wavelength Range: 350 to 1,700 nm
- Clear Aperture: 10.000000000000002 mm
- Operating Temperature: 15 to 35 C
- Diameter: 25 mm
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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: Qioptiq
Description: 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 to DIN ISO 10110) Wavefront
- Wavelength Range: 400 to 1,600 nm
- Transmittance: 86 %
- Thickness: 0.9600000000000001 to 2.62 mm
- Surface Flatness: λ/4
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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: CASTECH, Inc.
Description: 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
- 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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