Precision Motorized Polarization Rotation Stage

Specifications

Operating Wavelength Range: 635 – 2050 nm
Insertion Loss: Not Specified
Polarization Mode Dispersion: Not Specified
Resolution: 0.0025 Degrees
Available Wavelength Options: 635, 650, 685, 780, 830, 850, 980, 1064, 1310, 1480, 1550, 1625, 2050 nm
Minimum Lifetime: >600,000 Revolutions (100 km)
Maximum Relative Humidity: <80% at 31 °C (Non-Condensing)
Temperature Range: 15-40 °C
Data Length (1 Stop Bit, No Parity): 8 bit
Speed: 9600 baud
Bus: TTL RS232
Standby Current Consumption: 50 mA
Current Consumption: 800 mA
DC Voltage Input: 4.5-5.5 V
Motor Type: Resonant Piezo
Maximum Altitude: 2000
Maximum Total Load: 50 g
Axis Wobble: 0.014°
Minimum Incremental Motion: 0.05°
Encoder Resolution: 143,360 counts/360° typical (0.0025°/count)
Bidirectional Accuracy: 0.013°
Homing Repeatability: 0.1°
Bidirectional Repeatability3: 0.05°
Travel: 360° Continuous
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Features


  • Precision rotation of half-wave plates, quarter-wave plates, and polarizers to manipulate polarization

  • Built-in encoder for closed loop operation

  • Compact handheld plug-and-play device with touch screen control or with a computer via a USB port

  • User-friendly software with an intuitive GUI

  • Can be pigtailed with single-mode, polarization maintaining, or multimode fibers

  • Customizable software and GUI upon request

  • Interchangeable optics, holders, and receptacles

Applications


  • Automation of multi-polarization state analysis

  • Quantum state tomography

  • Polarization calibration

  • Polarization state analyzer

  • Polarized fiber optic source

  • Polarization extinction ratio controller and PM fiber axes conversion

  • Optical Interferometric systems

  • Laser to fiber coupling and coherent detection