A new method for precisely measuring the optical phase retardation of wave-plates in the infrared spectral region is presented by using modulated-polarized visible light. An electro-optic modulator is used to accurately determine the zero point by the frequency-doubled signal of the Modulated-polarized light. A Babinet-Soleil compensator is employed to make the phase delay compensation. Based on this method, an instrument is set up to measure the retardations of the infrared wave-plates with visible region laser. Measurement results with high accuracy and sound repetition are obtained by simple calculation. Its measurement precision is less than and repetitive precision is within 0.3%.

Date Published: 27 November 2012
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 8559, Information Optics and Optical Data Storage II, 855903 (27 November 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.999702

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8559:
Information Optics and Optical Data Storage II
Feijun Song; Hui Li; Xiudong Sun; Francis T. S. Yu; Suganda Jutamulia; Kees A. Schouhamer Immink; Keiji Shono, Editor(s)