Mounted Glan Taylor Polarizer
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since 2025
Description
The Glan-Taylor polarizer is a high-performance birefringent optical polarizer meticulously crafted from two right-angled calcite prisms. These prisms are cemented together with a special optical adhesive along their hypotenuse faces. The design takes advantage of the double-refraction property of calcite, where incident unpolarized light is split into two orthogonal polarization components, the ordinary ray and the extraordinary ray. The Glan-Taylor polarizer is engineered to transmit the extraordinary ray while total internally reflecting the ordinary ray, effectively outputting a highly polarized beam with a very high extinction ratio.
Mounted Glan Taylor Polarizer
Specifications |
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| Material: | Calcite, a-BBO, YVO4 |
| Transmission Wavelength Range: | 200 – 3500 nm |
| Max Extinction Ratio: | >= 100,000:1 |
| Wavefront Distortion: | <= Lambda/4 |
| Surface Quality (Input, Output Faces): | 20-10 scratch-dig |
| Clear Aperture: | Not Specified |
Features
Glan-Taylor polarizers are widely utilized in a variety of optical applications. In laser systems, they are essential for polarizing laser beams, ensuring high beam quality and stability, which is critical for precision laser cutting, micro-machining, and laser engraving. They also play a significant role in optical research and spectroscopy, enabling accurate polarization analysis and helping researchers study the optical properties of materials. Additionally, in optical measurement instruments like ellipsometers and polarimeters, Glan-Taylor polarizers enhance measurement accuracy by providing a highly polarized light source. These polarizers are also found in optical communication systems, where they help in signal modulation and polarization control to improve data transmission efficiency and reduce interference.
Applications
Glan-Taylor polarizers boast several outstanding features. Firstly, they offer an extremely high extinction ratio, typically up to 10^5:1 or even higher, ensuring that the output light is highly polarized. This high level of polarization purity makes them ideal for applications demanding strict polarization control. Secondly, they have a wide acceptance angle, allowing incident light within a certain angular range to be effectively polarized, which provides flexibility in optical system design. The polarizers also exhibit low absorption and high transmittance in their operating wavelength range, minimizing light energy loss and maintaining the intensity of the polarized beam. Moreover, their robust mechanical structure and stable optical performance over a broad temperature range make them reliable components in various optical setups, from laboratory instruments to industrial applications.