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Supplier: Qioptiq
Description: (typical) Type S: Single plate (multiple order) Retardation ?/2 or ?/4 Thickness < 0.5 mm -------------------- -------- Type D: Double plate (zero order) Optically contacted quartz plates Retardation ?/2 or ?/4 Custom retardation plates for higher
- Clear Aperture: 9 to 19 mm
- Diameter: 10 to 20 mm
- Polarizer Application: Infrared, Visible
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
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Supplier: Qioptiq
Description: Retardations: ?/2 and ?/4 Three different broad wavelength ranges Cemented Mounted versions fit to Microbench Transmission > 86 % Uncoated; coating available on request Surface flatness: ?/4 at 633 nm (over clear
- Polarizer Application: Infrared, Visible
- Polarizer Material: Achromatic
- Surface Flatness: ?/4
- Thickness: 0.9600 to 2.62 mm
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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
- Operating Temperature: -50 to 85 C
- Polarizer Material: Other Material
- Thickness: 0.1016 mm
- Transmittance: 92 %
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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
- Diameter: 12.7 to 31.5 mm
- Polarizer Application: Visible
- Polarizer Material: Achromatic
- Surface Flatness: ?/4
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Supplier: Edmund Optics Inc.
Description: Broad Spectral Range 1/100? Surface Accuracy ¼? and ½? Retardance Precision Achromatic Waveplates (Retarders) consist of a polymer stack layered between two precision BK7 windows, and are available in standard
- Clear Aperture: 10.16 mm
- Operating Temperature: -20 to 50 C
- Polarizer Material: BK7 Glass
- Wavelength Range: 920 to 1240 nm
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Supplier: Edmund Optics Inc.
Description: Broad Spectral Range 1/100? Surface Accuracy ¼? and ½? Retardance Precision Achromatic Waveplates (Retarders) consist of a polymer stack layered between two precision BK7 windows, and are available in standard
- Clear Aperture: 10.16 mm
- Operating Temperature: -20 to 50 C
- Polarizer Material: BK7 Glass
- Wavelength Range: 735 to 985 nm
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Supplier: Edmund Optics Inc.
Description: Broad Spectral Range 1/100? Surface Accuracy ¼? and ½? Retardance Precision Achromatic Waveplates (Retarders) consist of a polymer stack layered between two precision BK7 windows, and are available in standard
- Clear Aperture: 10.16 mm
- Operating Temperature: -20 to 50 C
- Polarizer Material: BK7 Glass
- Wavelength Range: 485 to 630 nm
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Supplier: Edmund Optics Inc.
Description: Broad Spectral Range 1/100? Surface Accuracy ¼? and ½? Retardance Precision Achromatic Waveplates (Retarders) consist of a polymer stack layered between two precision BK7 windows, and are available in standard
- Clear Aperture: 10.16 mm
- Operating Temperature: -20 to 50 C
- Polarizer Material: BK7 Glass
- Wavelength Range: 630 to 835 nm
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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
- Clear Aperture: 17 mm
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
- Surface Flatness: ?/10
- Wavelength Range: 257 to 1550 nm
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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 (?/2) or convert linear into circular polarization or vice versa
- Clear Aperture: 17 mm
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
- Surface Flatness: ?/10
- Wavelength Range: 257 to 1550 nm
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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
- Clear Aperture: 10 mm
- Diameter: 25 mm
- Operating Temperature: 15 to 35 C
- Surface Flatness: ?/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
- Polarizer Application: Infrared, Visible, Ultraviolet
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
- Wavelength Range: 350 to 2100 nm
- Waveplate / Retardation Plate Type: Quarter Wave (?/4), Half Wave (?/2)
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Description: • Quarter-wave or half-wave retardance • Broader wavelength bandwidth than common waveplates (Maximum 2000-15000nm) • Three types of materials are optional: BK7, UV Fused Silica and ZnSe • Half-wave prisms constructed by two quarter-wave prisms cemented
- Wavelength Range: 400 to 2.10E8 nm
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Supplier: EKSMA OPTICS
Description: very useful for dye laser or laser diode application. Zero order optically contacted wave plates are supplied mounted and have multilayer dielectric anti-reflection coating on both sides maximising the transmission. Quarter-wave and half-wave retardance Easy to
- Clear Aperture: 17 mm
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
- Surface Flatness: ?/2, ?/4
- Wavelength Range: 257 to 1550 nm
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Supplier: EKSMA OPTICS
Description: Operate at both first and second Nd:YAG laser harmonics Retardation tolerance
- Clear Aperture: 17 mm
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
- Surface Flatness: ?/10
- Surface Quality: 20-10 Scratch / Dig
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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.
- Antireflective Coating: Yes
- Diameter: 5 to 10 mm
- Operating Temperature: -40 to 85 C
- Polarizer Application: Visible
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Description: • Quarter-wave or half-wave retardance • Broader wavelength bandwidth than common waveplates (Maximum 2000-15000nm) • Three types of materials are optional: BK7, UV Fused Silica and ZnSe • Half-wave prisms constructed by two quarter-wave prisms cemented
- Clear Aperture: 10 mm
- Polarizer Material: BK7 Glass, Other Material
- Wavelength Range: 2300 to 3.50E8 nm
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Description: • Quarter-wave or half-wave retardance • Broader wavelength bandwidth than common waveplates (Maximum 2000-15000nm) • Three types of materials are optional: BK7, UV Fused Silica and ZnSe • Half-wave prisms constructed by two quarter-wave prisms cemented
- Clear Aperture: 10 mm
- Polarizer Material: UV grade fused Silica, Other Material
- Wavelength Range: 400 to 2.10E8 nm
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Description: • Quarter-wave or half-wave retardance • Broader wavelength bandwidth than common waveplates (Maximum 2000-15000nm) • Three types of materials are optional: BK7, UV Fused Silica and ZnSe • Half-wave prisms constructed by two quarter-wave prisms cemented
- Clear Aperture: 10 mm
- Polarizer Material: Other Material
- Wavelength Range: 15000 to 2.00E9 nm
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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: The 10RP14-12 Multiple-Order Quarter Wave Plate is a crystal quartz optic designed to differentially retard the phase of a polarized beam. With the proper phase shift, this waveplate can be used to convert linear polarization into circular polarization. This 1 inch (25.4
- Clear Aperture: 22.8 mm
- Diameter: 25.4 mm
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
- Surface Quality: 10-5 Scratch / Dig
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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: The 05RP14-12 Multiple-Order Quarter Wave Plate is a crystal quartz optic designed to differentially retard the phase of a polarized beam. With the proper phase shift, this waveplate can be used to convert linear polarization into circular polarization. This 1/2 inch
- Clear Aperture: 11.4 mm
- Diameter: 12.7 mm
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
- Surface Quality: 10-5 Scratch / Dig
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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: The 10RP14-28 Multiple-Order Quarter Wave Plate is a crystal quartz optic designed to differentially retard the phase of a polarized beam. With the proper phase shift, this waveplate can be used to convert linear polarization into circular polarization. This 1 inch (25.4
- Clear Aperture: 22.8 mm
- Diameter: 25.4 mm
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
- Surface Quality: 10-5 Scratch / Dig
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Supplier: Newport MKS
Description: The 05RP14-02 Multiple-Order Quarter Wave Plate is a crystal quartz optic designed to differentially retard the phase of a polarized beam. With the proper phase shift, this waveplate can be used to convert linear polarization into circular polarization. This 1/2 inch
- Clear Aperture: 11.4 mm
- Diameter: 12.7 mm
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
- Surface Quality: 10-5 Scratch / Dig
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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
- Polarizer Application: Infrared, Visible
- Wavelength Range: 532 nm
- Waveplate / Retardation Plate Type: Quarter Wave (?/4), Half Wave (?/2)
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Supplier: NDK
Description: A single board-type plate has good wavefront aberration and isthin. Therefore, it is convenient to use when bonded to a beamsplitter, etc.
- Antireflective Coating: Yes
- Diameter: 5 to 10 mm
- Operating Temperature: -40 to 85 C
- Polarizer Application: Visible
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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.
- Diameter: 10 mm
- Polarizer Application: Infrared
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
- Surface Flatness: ?/4
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Supplier: Artifex Engineering
Description: .8nm Retardation Tolerance: ? /100 Parallelism: <10 arc second (for cemented type) Standard Wave: quater wave (?/4), half wave (?/2) Coating: uncoated for standard, AR coating available Working Wavelength: 450-650nm, 550-750nm, 650-1100nm, 900-2100nm
- Antireflective Coating: Yes
- Polarizer Application: Infrared, Visible
- Polarizer Material: Achromatic
- Wavelength Range: 450 to 2100 nm
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Supplier: HG Optronics, Inc.
Description: Waveplates (retardation plates or phase shifters) are made from materials which exhibit birefringence. The velocities of the extraordinary and ordinary rays through the birefringent material varies inversely with their refractive indices. This difference in velocities gives rise to a
- Waveplate / Retardation Plate Order: Zero Order, Multiple Order
- Waveplate / Retardation Plate Type: Quarter Wave (?/4), Half Wave (?/2)
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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
- Polarizer Material: Quartz, Other Material
- Surface Flatness: ?/8
- Surface Quality: 20-10 Scratch / Dig
- Waveplate / Retardation Plate Order: Zero Order
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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
- Polarizer Material: Achromatic, Quartz, Other Material
- Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
- Thickness: 8 mm
- Wavelength Range: 450 to 1650 nm
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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
- Antireflective Coating: Yes
- Clear Aperture: 73 mm
- Diameter: 76.2 mm
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
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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
- Polarizer Material: Quartz
- Surface Flatness: ?/4
- Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
- Waveplate / Retardation Plate Order: Zero Order
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Supplier: Knight Optical (UK) Ltd
Description: Plastic retarders are a cost effective alternative to mica or quartz which are generally 0.8mm thick and available in large sizes. Our stock range includes one wave plates which can be used as sensitive-tint plates in polariscopes to display small strain in a specimen by
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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
- Q-switch Type: Electro-optic
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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
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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