Description
Meadowlark’s newest liquid crystal (LC) product, the high speed LC variable retarder (HS LCVR) has a 10X speed improvement over our award-winning standard LCVR. The sub-millisecond speeds are achieved without the 50/50 duty cycle drive scheme required by our ferroelectric liquid crystal components, but are nearly as fast. The new HS LCVR uses nematic liquid crystal materials to electrically control polarization and provide tunable retardation by changing the effective birefringence of the material with applied voltage, thus altering the input polarized light to any chosen elliptical, linear or circular polarization.
Meadowlark Optics High-Speed Liquid Crystal Variable Retarder (HLC)
Specifications
| Waveplate Type: | Zero Order, Multiple Order, Achromatic |
|---|---|
| Material: | Liquid Crystal |
| Mounting: | Mounted |
| Shape: | Round |
| Size: | 50.8 mm |
| Center Wavelength: | 532 nm |
| Retardation: | Lambda/2 |
| Retardation Accuracy: | Custom |
| Wavefront Distortion: | <= Lambda/4 |
| Surface Quality (Scratch-Dig): | 40-20 |
| Wavelength Range: | 450-700 nm |
| Typical LC Rise Time (10-90% @532nm): | 50 us |
| Typical LC Fall Time (90-10% @532nm): | 500 us |
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Features
- Sub-millisecond speeds
- Standard LC Drive Schemes
- Includes heated housing
- Precision non-mechanical retardation control
Applications
- Variable Attenuators and Rotators
- Variable Beamsplitters
- Spatial Light Modulators
- Non-Mechanical Shutters
- Beam Steerers
- Optical Compensators
- Polarimeters
- Tunable Filters
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