HALFWAVE RETARDER FOR ALL POLARIZATION STATES

Authors
BHANDARI R
Citation
R. Bhandari, HALFWAVE RETARDER FOR ALL POLARIZATION STATES, Applied optics, 36(13), 1997, pp. 2799-2801
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
36
Issue
13
Year of publication
1997
Pages
2799 - 2801
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1997)36:13<2799:HRFAPS>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
We show that a device consisting of an optical rotator placed between two identically oriented quarter-wave plates always acts as a halfwave retarder for some pair of orthogonal elliptically polarized states th at can be selected by linear adjustment of the optical rotation and or ientation of the quarter-wave plates. (C) 1997 Optical Society of Amer ica.