birefringent plate
birefringent plate
[‚bī·ri′frin·jənt ′plāt] (optics)
A piece of birefringent optical material with parallel plane surfaces.
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That element was a uniformly
birefringent plate, called a compensator, which had to be placed between the crossed polarizers, either before or after the specimen.
[4], a polarizing system with the properties of a quarter-wave plate, with an additional optical activity based on two
birefringent plates of arbitrary thickness, is considered theoretically and implemented experimentally.
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