Waveplates

Achromatic wave plate is a special kind of Zero Order wave plate, comprised of two wave plates made by two different birefringent materials (e.g. crystal quartz and magnesium fluoride). The existence of chromatic dispersion greatly affects the refractive indices of materials. The two birefringent materials which construct the ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Achromatic
Material: Quartz and MgF2
Mounting: Unmounted
Shape: Round
Size: 12.7 mm
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Data Sheet
The Liquid Crystal Polarization Rotator is a highly useful optical component that effectively and achromatically rotates the polarization of light. It uses Liquid Crystal twisted nematic technology to rotate the orientation of linear polarization by a fixed amount of typically 45° or 90°.     The device has a wide ...

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Waveplate Type: Achromatic
Material: Liquid Crystal
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 22 mm
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Data Sheet
The low (multiple) order waveplate is designed to give a retardance of several full waves, plus the desired fraction. This result in a single, physically robust component with desired performance.  However, even small changed in wavelength or temperature will result in significant changes in the desired fractional ...

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Waveplate Type: Multiple Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 15 mm
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Data Sheet
Zero order waveplate shows better performances than multiple order waveplates, it has broad bandwidth and a lower sensitivity to temperature and wavelength changes. Email now: sales@crysmit.com or use the Contact Us button.

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Waveplate Type: Zero Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 12.7 mm
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Data Sheet
Union Optic can offer single plate high power waveplate now, due to our unique technology, we can make thickness down to 20 microns. Thanks to her high damage threshold, single plate high power waveplate is normally used in high power application.  High Damage ThresholdBetter Temperature BandwidthWide Wavelength ...

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Waveplate Type: Zero Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted, Unmounted
Shape: Round, Square, Rectangle, Custom
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
Waveplate is an optic in which the polished faces contain the optical axis. All light incidents normal to the surface are composed of components polarized parallel and perpendicular to the axis. In such a device, light polarized parallel to the axis will propagate slower than light polarized perpendicular to the axis. As the light ...

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Waveplate Type: Zero Order, Multiple Order, Achromatic
Material: Quartz and MgF2, MgF2, Quartz, Polymer, Mica, N-BK7, Custom, Not Specified
Mounting: Mounted, Unmounted
Shape: Round, Square, Rectangle, Custom
Size: custom mm
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Data Sheet
Photonchina’s waveplates fabrication starts from quartz materials cutting with their axes oriented within a few arcminutes before being polished to a laser-quality finish, arcsecond parallelism, and <λ/10 wavefront. Their thickness tolerance is a only small fraction of a micron. To verify retardation tolerances, ...

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Waveplate Type: Zero Order, Multiple Order, Achromatic
Material: Quartz and MgF2, MgF2, Quartz, N-BK7, Custom
Mounting: Mounted, Unmounted
Shape: Round, Square, Rectangle, Custom
Size: 1-80 mm
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Data Sheet
Achromatic Waveplate   Achromatic waveplate is made from two different substrate materials such as crystal quartz and magnesium fluoride. For the single material,waveplate’s working wavelength is very limited because of the dispersion of the material. But Achromatic Waveplate uses two different kinds of materials,with the ...

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Waveplate Type: Zero Order, Multiple Order, Achromatic
Material: Quartz and MgF2, MgF2, Quartz, N-BK7, Custom
Mounting: Mounted, Unmounted
Shape: Round, Square, Rectangle, Custom
Size: 1-80mm mm
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Data Sheet
UV-IR Waveplates
Medway Optics Ltd
Waveplates are manufactured from birefringent crystal materials that split monochromatic incoming beam into two orthogonally polarized  beams travelling at different velocities. There will generally be one or more propagation directions (ordinary and extraordinary ray directions) depending on whether the material is ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Zero Order, Multiple Order, Achromatic
Material: Quartz and MgF2
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: -- mm
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Data Sheet
Crystal Quartz Waveplates
Gooch and Housego
From crystal growth, crystal orientation and cutting, to waveplate fabrication and coating, no other waveplate supplier has as much control over the fabrication stages as G&H. Our waveplates been used in the cutting edge of research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s NIF project to the most demanding of production ...

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Waveplate Type: Zero Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round, Square, Rectangle
Size: 150 mm
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Data Sheet
Ealing Multiple Order Waveplates are available in a range of laser-line wavelenths, mounted in a 25.4 mm diameter mount. Multiple Order Waveplates are sensitive to changes in temperature, angle of incidence, and degree of collimation. They are intended for use at the design wavelength only. If used at a different wavelength, a ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Zero Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
Ealing Multiple Order Waveplates are available in a range of laser-line wavelenths, mounted in a 25.4 mm diameter mount. Multiple Order Waveplates are sensitive to changes in temperature, angle of incidence, and degree of collimation. They are intended for use at the design wavelength only. If used at a different wavelength, a ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Multiple Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
Ealing Multiple Order Waveplates are available in a range of laser-line wavelenths, mounted in a 25.4 mm diameter mount. Multiple Order Waveplates are sensitive to changes in temperature, angle of incidence, and degree of collimation. They are intended for use at the design wavelength only. If used at a different wavelength, a ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Multiple Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
Ealing Multiple Order Waveplates are available in a range of laser-line wavelenths, mounted in a 25.4 mm diameter mount. Multiple Order Waveplates are sensitive to changes in temperature, angle of incidence, and degree of collimation. They are intended for use at the design wavelength only. If used at a different wavelength, a ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Multiple Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
Ealing Multiple Order Waveplates are available in a range of laser-line wavelenths, mounted in a 25.4 mm diameter mount. Multiple Order Waveplates are sensitive to changes in temperature, angle of incidence, and degree of collimation. They are intended for use at the design wavelength only. If used at a different wavelength, a ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Multiple Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
Ealing Multiple Order Waveplates are available in a range of laser-line wavelenths, mounted in a 25.4 mm diameter mount. Multiple Order Waveplates are sensitive to changes in temperature, angle of incidence, and degree of collimation. They are intended for use at the design wavelength only. If used at a different wavelength, a ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Multiple Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
Ealing Multiple Order Waveplates are available in a range of laser-line wavelenths, mounted in a 25.4 mm diameter mount. Multiple Order Waveplates are sensitive to changes in temperature, angle of incidence, and degree of collimation. They are intended for use at the design wavelength only. If used at a different wavelength, a ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Multiple Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
Ealing Multiple Order Waveplates are available in a range of laser-line wavelenths, mounted in a 25.4 mm diameter mount. Multiple Order Waveplates are sensitive to changes in temperature, angle of incidence, and degree of collimation. They are intended for use at the design wavelength only. If used at a different wavelength, a ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Multiple Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
Ealing Zero Order Waveplates are the preferred type of waveplate. They are not as sensitive to changes in temperature, wavelength, angle of incidence, or collimation. A wavelength shift of 15 nm will result in approximately a 1% retardation change. They are supplied in a 25.4 nm mount. Applications for Half Waveplates include ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Zero Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
A Quarter Waveplate is used to convert linearly polarized beams into circularly polarized beams (and vice versa). The construction of a Quarter Waveplate is such that the fast axis, indicated by the marked line, lies in the surface at 45° to the input polarization. The input beam is resolved into two components of equal ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Zero Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
A Quarter Waveplate is used to convert linearly polarized beams into circularly polarized beams (and vice versa). The construction of a Quarter Waveplate is such that the fast axis, indicated by the marked line, lies in the surface at 45° to the input polarization. The input beam is resolved into two components of equal ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Zero Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
A 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 the half wave plate and the quater wave waveplate. Waveplates are constructed out of a birefringent material, such as quartz, for which the index of refraction is different for ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Zero Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Custom
Size: 12.7 mm
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Data Sheet
A 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 the half wave plate and the quater wave waveplate. Waveplates are constructed out of a birefringent material, such as quartz, for which the index of refraction is different for ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Multiple Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Custom
Size: 12.7 mm
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Data Sheet
A Quarter Waveplate is used to convert linearly polarized beams into circularly polarized beams (and vice versa). The construction of a Quarter Waveplate is such that the fast axis, indicated by the marked line, lies in the surface at 45° to the input polarization. The input beam is resolved into two components of equal ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Zero Order
Material: Quartz
Mounting: Mounted
Shape: Round
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
Middle Infrared zero order waveplate is constructed by two Magnesium Fluoride (MgF2) plates with their fast axis crossed, the two plates are constructed by optically contacted method, the optical path is epoxy free. The difference in thickness between the two plates determines the retardance. Middle Infrared zero order waveplates is ...

Specifications

Waveplate Type: Zero Order
Material: MgF2
Mounting: Mounted, Unmounted
Shape: Round, Square, Rectangle, Custom
Size: 25.4 mm
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Data Sheet
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A wave plate (retarder or phase shifter) is an optical element which changes the polarization of the light wave that passes through. Wave plates work by shifting the phase between two perpendicular polarization components of the light wave. A common configuration of a wave plate is a plane-parallel substrate of birefringent crystal, typically quartz, mica, or magnesium fluoride. Wave plates come in configured for different retardations such as a quarter, half or full wave. A quarter wave plate changes linear polarization to circular, while a half wave plate changes the handedness of the circular polarization. By using different combinations it is possible to isolate one or two wavelengths simultaneously, eliminate or compensate for ellipticity and even rotate one wavelength relative to another. The utility of wave plates depends upon a number of factors such as operating temperature range, wavelength bandwidth, damage threshold, etc.