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http://hdl.handle.net/2289/2709| Title: | Halfwave retarder for all polarization states |
| Authors: | Bhandari, R. |
| Issue Date: | May-1997 |
| Publisher: | Optical Society of America |
| Citation: | Applied Optics, 1997, Vol.36, p2799-2801 |
| 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 that can be selected by linear adjustment of the optical rotation and orientation of the quarter-wave plates. |
| Description: | Restricted Access. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/2709 |
| ISSN: | 0003-6935 1539-4522 (Online) |
| Alternative Location: | http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-36-13-2799 |
| Copyright: | 1997 Optical Society of America |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (A&A) Research Papers (TP) |
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