waveplate or retarder is an optical device that alters the polarization state of a light wave travelling through it. Two common types of waveplates are...

polarized light to the other handedness, one can use a half-waveplate. A half-waveplate shifts a given linear component of light one half of a wavelength...

polarizer, a waveplate (retarder) and a second horizontal polarizer.: 95–96  Linearly polarized light travels fastest when aligned with the waveplate's fast F...

orientation, parallel to the optical surface, may be used to create a waveplate, in which there is no distortion of the image but an intentional modification...

Half waveplate (HWP), polarizing beamsplitter (PBS), steering mirrors (M#), photoconductive antenna, parabolic mirrors (PM#), quarter waveplate (QWP)...

quartz. Plates made of these materials for this purpose are referred to as waveplates. Uniaxial crystals have one crystal axis that is different from the other...

circular polarization state may be generated by a quarter waveplate, however, common optical waveplates are typically designed for visible, near- and mid-infrared...

two crystals in opposite orientation, which together give a zero-order waveplate when the voltage is turned off. This is often not perfect and drifts with...

Polarizer Polaroid (polarizer) Radial polarization Rayleigh sky model Waveplate Shipman, James; Wilson, Jerry D.; Higgins, Charles A. (2015). An Introduction...

This difference in index of refraction causes the material to act like a waveplate when light is incident on it in a direction perpendicular to the electric...

to convert between linear, circular, and elliptical polarizations with waveplates.: 237  Many crystals are naturally birefringent, but isotropic materials...

linearly polarized light via quarter-waveplates formed from stacks of microvilli. Some of their biological quarter-waveplates perform more uniformly over the...

and inhomogeneous, such as an inhomogeneous anisotropic birefringent waveplate. Q-plates are also currently realized using total internal reflection...

either by translating the objective Nomarski prism, or by a lambda/4 waveplate between polarizer and the condenser Normarski prism (De-Senarmont Compensation)...

polarization direction. A Pockels cell can thus be seen as a voltage-controlled waveplate, and it can be used for modulating the polarization state. For a linear...

optical elements, or optical instruments (including reciprocal mirrors and waveplates) to process quantum information, and uses photon detectors and quantum...

simultaneously. Active filters in femtosecond pulse shaping Photoelastic modulator Waveplate Larry J. Hornbeck (TI), Digital Light Processing for High-Brightness,...

quantum CNOT gate, yielding two bits of classical information. The target photon is then rotated with two controllable waveplates based on this information....

a_{z}} . For this method to work, the fast axis and the slow axis of the waveplate must be aligned with the reference directions for the basis states. The...

Shih-Hao Wang; Jyun-Rong Lai (2011). "Biologically inspired achromatic waveplates for visible light". Nature Communications. 2: 363. Bibcode:2011NatCo....

relatively simple in operation, since tuning is via mechanical rotation of waveplates rather than via high voltage control of piezoelectric crystals or lithium...

cubic phase masks works to blur the image uniformly using a cubic shaped waveplate so that the intermediate image, the optical transfer function, is out...

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filter, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensor, polarizers, waveplate, anti-reflective structures, integrated photonics circuit and plasmonic...

vector points towards the center of the beam. In practice, an array of waveplates may be used to provide an approximation to a radially polarized beam....

optics. Linear optics includes most applications of lenses, mirrors, waveplates, diffraction gratings, and many other common optical components and systems...

relatively simple in operation, since tuning is via mechanical rotation of waveplates rather than via high voltage control of piezoelectric crystals or lithium...

contained grism slits and field lenses. An external wheel containing a waveplate could be used with a polarizer in the CVF wheel for polarimetry. NSFCam2...

for example be obtained by placing on the optical path three rotatable waveplates in cascade: a first quarterwave plate, which is oriented to transform...

Geremia R, Ramponi R, Sansoni L, Santinelli A, et al. (June 2014). "Rotated waveplates in integrated waveguide optics". Nature Communications. 5: 4249. Bibcode:2014NatCo...