{"id":409,"date":"2019-04-15T08:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T08:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2019-04-15T08:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T08:19:17","slug":"zero-order-waveplates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/zero-order-waveplates\/409.html","title":{"rendered":"Zero-Order Waveplates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Waveplates<\/strong> are used in the synthesis and analysis of polarized light. Quarter Waveplates transform linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light, and vice-versa. Half Waveplates rotate the plane of polarization of linearly polarized light through any angle. They also convert left circularly polarized light into right circularly polarized light, and vice-versa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/product\/laser-components\/waveplates-\/zero-order-waveplates-96.html\"><strong>Zero-Order Waveplates<\/strong><\/a> are made from two Crystalline Quartz or Sapphire plates of similar thickness, that are optically contacted together with orthogonally aligned optical axes.<\/p>\n<p>Retardation varies slowly with wavelength, thus they are useful with tunable or broadband sources. Retardation is a function of thickness difference between the two plates, and is essentially invariant with temperature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/category\/lasers-components-2.html\">Laser Components<\/a>\u00a0&gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/category\/waveplates-19.html\">Waveplates\u00a0<\/a>&gt;&gt; Zero Order Waveplates<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waveplates are used in the synthesis and analysis  &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[130,53,131,129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}