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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