Wave-plate retarders based on overhead transparencies
Applied Optics, Vol. 46, Issue 22, pp. 5129-5136 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.46.005129
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Abstract
We describe procedures for constructing inexpensive wave plates of desired retardation out of ordinary commercially available transparencies. Various relevant properties of the transparencies are investigated: the dependence of retardation on rotation of the film, tilt, wavelength, position, and temperature.
A transparency is typically a multiple-order wave plate with the difference of in-plane refractive indices of
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OCIS Codes
(120.2130) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Ellipsometry and polarimetry
(120.5410) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Polarimetry
(120.5710) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Refraction
(140.0140) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers and laser optics
ToC Category:
Optical Devices
History
Original Manuscript: March 8, 2007
Revised Manuscript: April 23, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: April 25, 2007
Published: July 9, 2007
Citation
Igor Savukov and Dmitry Budker, "Wave-plate retarders based on overhead transparencies," Appl. Opt. 46, 5129-5136 (2007)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-46-22-5129
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