Effect of tilt on the performance of a quarter-wave prism retarder

Biswajit Chakraborty; Sarbani Chakraborty

doi:10.1117/1.OE.55.9.094102

16 September 2016 Effect of tilt on the performance of a quarter-wave prism retarder

Biswajit Chakraborty, Sarbani Chakraborty

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 55, Issue 9, 094102 (September 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.9.094102

Abstract

The rhomb-type achromatic prism retarder utilizes the phase difference introduced at the glass–air interface, where the beam of light undergoes total internal reflection. With the proper choice of glass materials and the number of total internal reflection, it is possible to obtain a desired phase difference. The phase difference introduced is also dependent on the angle of incidence of the light beam at the glass–air interface. A small change in angle of incidence causes a considerable change in phase difference. The change in the phase difference introduced with the change in external angle of incidence of the light beam in an achromatic prism-type quarter-wave retarder is studied both theoretically and experimentally. The experimental results obtained are found to be in accordance with the theoretical results.

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Biswajit Chakraborty and Sarbani Chakraborty "Effect of tilt on the performance of a quarter-wave prism retarder," Optical Engineering 55(9), 094102 (16 September 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.9.094102

Published: 16 September 2016

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