Broad-band apochromatic retarders: choice of materials

✍ Scribed by P Hariharan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 75 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-3992
• DOI: 10.1016/s0030-3992(02)00050-6

✦ Synopsis

Apochromatic retarders can be constructed by using a combination of three plates of di erent birefringent materials with properly chosen thicknesses. However, when dealing with a broad wavelength range, their performance depends very much on the materials chosen. A procedure is presented for optimizing the choice of materials for such a broad-band retarder.