Multi Order Half Wave Plate
Multiple Order Waveplates Are Designed With Only A Single Birefringent Material, They Can Be Relatively Thick, Which Eases Handling And System Integration
A Half-Wave Plate is a Birefringent Material which changes the phase between two perpendicular polarizations. A half-waveplate is very helpful in rotating the plane of polarization from a polarized laser to any other desired plane (especially if the laser is too large to rotate). Most large ion lasers are vertically polarized, for example, so to obtain horizontal polarization, simply place a half-waveplate in the beam with its fast (or slow) axis 45° to the vertical.
- Retardance λ/2
- Reflectance (in AR Coating Range)<0.25% Per Surface ( ON REQUEST)
- Material Crystalline Quartz
- Damage Threshold 5J/cm2
- Surface Quality 40-20 Scratch-Dig
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A Nicol prism is a type of polarizer, an optical device made from calcite crystal used to produce and analyzer plane polarized light. It is made in such a way that it eliminates one of the rays by total internal reflection, i.e. the ordinary ray is eliminated and only the extraordinary ray is transmitted through the prism.
Zero-Order Half-Wave Plates are built by combining two Multi-Order Crystalline Quartz Wave Plates to obtain an optical path length difference of λ/2.
Achromatic Quarter waveplates consist of two different materials that are carefully chosen to eliminate chromatic dispersion.
