Material
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Single crystal quartz
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Optical Axis
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Normal to facet on circumference of retarder
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Clear Aperture
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17 mm for 20 mm diameter
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Ring Mount Outer Diameter
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25.4 mm +0.0/-0.2 mm
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Nominal Thickness of Waveplate
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0.8-1.5 mm
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Surface quality | 20-10 scratch & dig (MIL-PRF-13830B) |
Wavefront distortion
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λ/10 @633 nm
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Parallelism
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<10 arcsec
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AR coating
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R<0.4%
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Laser damage threshold | 10 J/cm2, 10 nsec, 1064 typical |
EKSMA Optics Nd:YAG Multiple Order Waveplates
88.5 kB |
Multiple order plates are more dependant on the temperature changes than zero order plates. A change of +- 1% from the designed wavelength of multiple order plate can result in difficulties in retardation. Contrary, with zero order plates +-1% and even +-2% change from designed wavelength can cause only small retardation change.