Laurent half-shade plate

Laurent half-shade plate

[lȯ′rän ′haf ‚shād ‚plāt]

(optics)

A device used to determine the direction of polarization of plane polarized light; it consists of a quartz plate of special thickness that covers half of the plane polarized beam, followed by a plane polarization analyzer.

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