Achromatic Wave Plates for the Visible Spectrum*

McIntyre, C. M.; Harris, S. E.

doi:10.1364/josa.58.001575

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“…West and Makas [17] described achromatic combinations of plates with different dispersions of birefringence, while achromatic retarders composed of wave plates of the same material but different thicknesses were proposed by Destriau and Prouteau [18] for two birefringent plates and Pancharatnam for three plates [19]. Later Harris and co-workers proposed achromatic retarders with 6 and 10 identical zero-order quarter-wave plates [20,21].…”

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Optimized control of multistate quantum systems by composite pulse sequences

2011

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We introduce a technique for derivation of high-fidelity composite pulse sequences for two types of multistate quantum systems: systems with the SU(2) and Morris-Shore dynamic symmetries. For the former type, we use the Majorana decomposition to reduce the dynamics to an effective two-state system, which allows us to find the propagator analytically and use the pool of available composite pulses for two-state systems. For the latter type of multistate systems, we use the Morris-Shore decomposition, which reduces the multistate dynamics to a set of two-state systems. We present examples which demonstrate that the multistate composite sequences open a variety of possibilities for coherent control of quantum systems with multiple states.

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Optimized control of multistate quantum systems by composite pulse sequences

2011

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“…In a liquid crystal variable retarder, an increasing voltage applied across the cell causes the liquid crystal molecules to rotate away from the optical windows, thereby modifying the retardance. [4][5][6][7][8] Switchable phase shifters using a combination of quarterand half-wave plates also have been studied. 9 In the present study, we considered a simple setup consisting of a cascaded system of three birefringent plates, of which the two end plates were retarders identical in all respects.…”

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Three-element variable retarder for monochromatic light

Saha¹,

Bhattacharya

Chakraborty

2010

Opt. Eng

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A technique is described for the continuous variation of the resultant retardance and effective privileged directions of a cascaded system of three optical retarders. The system consists of a rotatable retarder sandwiched between two fixed, identical, parallel retarders. The primary aim of the study was to develop a simple technique for a variable retarder for monochromatic light, but the robustness of the system for a narrow band on either side of the design wavelength was also studied. Simulated plots show that a linear variation of the effective retardance from 0 to 2 is achievable, as is a linear variation of the effective azimuth from 0 to . It is also shown that these two parameters may be varied independently of each other.

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“…So it is necessary to measure its phase retardation accurately. Several methods were proposed to measure the phase retardation [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11], and they have good measured results. Except Lo's method [11], they are valid only for one point measurement.…”

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Full-field measurement of the phase retardation for birefringent elements by using common path heterodyne interferometry

Chen

2009

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

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Achromatic Wave Plates for the Visible Spectrum*

Cited by 73 publications

References 12 publications

Optimized control of multistate quantum systems by composite pulse sequences

Optimized control of multistate quantum systems by composite pulse sequences

Three-element variable retarder for monochromatic light

Full-field measurement of the phase retardation for birefringent elements by using common path heterodyne interferometry

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