Zero-Order Waveplates are made from two Crystalline Quartz or Sapphire plates of similar thickness, that are optically contacted together with orthogonally aligned optical axes.
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.
Material | quartz |
parallism | <1'' |
thickness tolerance | +0/-0.25mm |
delay error | +/-λ/300 |
wavefront distortion | ≤λ/10@632.8nm |
AOI | 0° |
coating | AR coating R<0.25%@Design wavelength |
S/D | 10-5 |
damage threshold | 1.95J/cm2 with 10ns 10Hz |
They can be customized as per your request,please contact sales@hr-optics.com