Single Material Achromatic Half-Wave Plate Design

N. W. F. Stephens

doi:10.1117/12.934387

16 June 1983 Single Material Achromatic Half-Wave Plate Design

N. W. F. Stephens

Proceedings Volume 0369, Max Born Centenary Conf; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934387
Event: The Max Born Centenary Conference, 1982, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

A simple effective achromatic half wave plate has been designed at Spectron by computer analysis of birefringent networks based on Poincare sphere representation. By observing some simple rules and applying selection criteria based on rotational properties of half wave plates, some potentially successful plate configurations have been identified. The most promising of these, a three plate combination, has been chosen for manufacture and is now available from the Spectron product range.

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N. W. F. Stephens "Single Material Achromatic Half-Wave Plate Design", Proc. SPIE 0369, Max Born Centenary Conf, (16 June 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934387

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