Variable Ultra-broadband and Narrowband Composite Polarization Retarders
Optics
2012-11-20 v1
Abstract
We propose and experimentally demonstrate novel types of composite sequences of half-wave and quarter-wave polarization retarders, either permitting operation at ultra-broad spectral bandwidth or narrow bandwidth. The retarders are composed of stacked standard half-wave retarders and quarter-wave retarders of equal thickness. To our knowledge, these home-built devices outperform all commercially available compound retarders, made of several birefringent materials.
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@article{arxiv.1211.4358,
title = {Variable Ultra-broadband and Narrowband Composite Polarization Retarders},
author = {Thorsten Peters and Svetoslav S. Ivanov and Daniel Englisch and Andon A. Rangelov and Nikolay V. Vitanov and Thomas Halfmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.4358},
year = {2012}
}
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5 figures, 9 pages