Polarization errors associated with birefringent waveplates

Edward A. West; Matthew H. Smith

doi:10.1117/12.202079

1 June 1995 Polarization errors associated with birefringent waveplates

Edward A. West, Matthew H. Smith

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 34, Issue 6, (June 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.202079

Abstract

Although zero-order quartz waveplates are widely used in instrumentation that needs good temperature and field-of-view characteristics, the residual errors associated with these devices can be very important in high-resolution polarimetry measurements. How the field-of-view characteristics are affected by retardation errors and the misalignment of optic axes in a double-crystal waveplate is discussed. The retardation measurements made on zero-order quartz and single-order "achromatic" waveplates and how the misalignment errors affect those measurements are discussed.

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Edward A. West and Matthew H. Smith "Polarization errors associated with birefringent waveplates," Optical Engineering 34(6), (1 June 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.202079

Published: 1 June 1995

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