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waveplate or ****er is an
optical device that
alters the
polarization state of a
light wave
travelling through it. Two
common types of
waveplates are...
- depolarized. If the
waveplates are not perfect, more
rotating waveplates can
improve performance.
Based on
electrooptic rotating waveplates, such polarization-independent...
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above a
paper with writing, as in the
above photographs. On the contrary,
waveplates specifically have
their optic axis
along the
surface of the plate, so...
- to
convert between linear, circular, and
elliptical polarizations with
waveplates.: 237 Many
crystals are
naturally birefringent, but
isotropic materials...
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optical elements, or
optical instruments (including
reciprocal mirrors and
waveplates) to
process quantum information, and uses
photon detectors and quantum...
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linearly polarized light via quarter-
waveplates formed from
stacks of microvilli. Some of
their biological quarter-
waveplates perform more
uniformly over the...
- Shih-Hao Wang; Jyun-Rong Lai (2011). "Biologically
inspired achromatic waveplates for
visible light".
Nature Communications. 2: 363. Bibcode:2011NatCo....
- Half
waveplate (HWP),
polarizing beamsplitter (PBS),
steering mirrors (M#),
photoconductive antenna,
parabolic mirrors (PM#),
quarter waveplate (QWP)...
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Polarizer Polaroid (polarizer)
Radial polarization Rayleigh sky
model Waveplate Shipman, James; Wilson,
Jerry D.; Higgins,
Charles A. (2015). An Introduction...
- 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...
