Optical inspection of liquid crystal variable retarder inhomogeneities
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Optical inspection of liquid crystal variable retarder inhomogeneities.
Liquid crystal variable retarders (LCVRs) are starting to be widely used in optical systems because of their capacity to provide a controlled variable optical retardance between two orthogonal components of incident polarized light or to introduce a known phase shifting (PS) between coherent waves, both by means of an applied voltage. Typically, the retardance or PS introduced by an LCVR is not...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Optics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0003-6935,1539-4522
DOI: 10.1364/ao.49.000568