Abstract

An inexpensive, easily fabricated, high quality, large aperture, pile-of-plates type, ir polarizer has been constructed having a polarization constant and insertion loss of 98% and 20%, respectively, using films of polyethylene kitchen wrap, each film being tuned for maximum performance at 10.6 μm by stretching.

© 1976 Optical Society of America

Optical transmission and reflection properties of a pile of lossy plates

D. T. Rampton and R. W. Grow
Appl. Opt. 15(9) 2068-2074 (1976)

Nonpolarizing interference films inside a glass cube

Alfred Thelen
Appl. Opt. 15(12) 2983-2985 (1976)

Hybrid metal mesh-dielectric mirrors for optically pumped far infrared lasers

E. J. Danielewicz and Paul D. Coleman
Appl. Opt. 15(3) 761-767 (1976)

Thin slits: transmission and polarization

Paul Kuttner
Appl. Opt. 15(5) 1199-1203 (1976)

Lummer-Gehrcke interferometer modified for the spectroscopy of thin dielectric films

Cardinal Warde
Appl. Opt. 15(11) 2730-2735 (1976)