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Polarization Filters<br />

Common Specifications<br />

Property Value Comments<br />

Guaranteed Transmission > 95% p-polarized light<br />

Contrast 1,000,000:1<br />

Blocking See table on page 86<br />

Ratio of transmission through two identical aligned<br />

polarizers to transmission through same pair of<br />

crossed polarizers<br />

Nominal Angle of Incidence 45° AOI tolerance (See table on page 86)<br />

Laser Damage Threshold 1 J/cm² @ 532 nm 10 ns pulse width p-pol (See page 108)<br />

Substrate Material<br />

Dimensions & Tolerance<br />

Ultra-low autofluorescence fused silica<br />

25.2 mm x 35.6 mm x 2.0 mm +/- 0.1 mm<br />

25.0 mm x 2.0 mm +/- 0.1 mm<br />

Mount options on page 86 for 25.2 x 35.6 mm size<br />

25.0 mm (unmounted)<br />

Clear Aperture ≥ 85% Elliptical, for all optical specifications<br />

Transmitted Wavefront Error < λ/4 RMS at λ = 633 nm Peak-to-valley error < 5 x RMS value measured within<br />

clear aperture<br />

Beam Deviation ≤ 10 arc seconds Measured per inch<br />

Surface Quality 40-20 scratch-dig Measured within clear aperture<br />

Orientation<br />

TECHNICAL NOTE<br />

Thin-film Plate Polarizers<br />

Coating (Text) towards light<br />

Coating (Text) away from light<br />

For use as a polarizer<br />

For use as an analyzer<br />

A “polarizer” transmits a single state of polarization of light while absorbing, reflecting, or deviating light with the orthogonal<br />

state of polarization. Applications include fluorescence polarization assays and imaging, second-harmonic-generation imaging,<br />

polarization diversity detection in communications and rangefinding, and laser materials processing, to name a few. Polarizers<br />

are characterized by the “contrast ratio,” or the ratio of the transmission through a pair of identical aligned polarizers to<br />

the transmission through the same pair of crossed polarizers. Contrast ratios typically vary from about 100:1 to as large as<br />

100,000:1.<br />

Three of the most common high-contrast polarizers<br />

are shown in the diagram on the right. Thin-film plate<br />

polarizers, like those made by <strong>Semrock</strong>, are based on<br />

interference within a dielectric optical thin-film coating on<br />

a thin glass substrate. In birefringent crystal polarizers,<br />

different polarization orientations of light rays incident on<br />

an interface are deviated by different amounts. In “Glan”<br />

calcite polarizers, extinction is achieved by total internal<br />

reflection of s-polarized light at a crystal-air gap (Glanlaser)<br />

or crystal-epoxy gap (Glan-Thompson). Glass film polarizers<br />

selectively absorb one orientation of linearly polarized light more strongly than the other.<br />

s & p<br />

Thin-film plate polarizers have a number of unique advantages relative to other types of polarizers, including superior<br />

s only<br />

transmission and optical quality, low scattering, wavefront distortion, and s beam & p deviation that can cause beam walk during<br />

s only<br />

rotation. They can be made with excellent environmental reliability, the highest s & p laser damage thresholds, and large aperture<br />

s & p<br />

p only s & p<br />

sizes (inches). And they naturally function as beamsplitters with a 90º beam deviation T of the blocked polarization. Unlike<br />

p<br />

birefringent crystal polarizers, thin-film plate polarizers tend to function over only a range of wavelengths s since they are based<br />

on multiwave interference, and thus they are best suited for laser applications or for systems Thin-film with Plate limited signal band. Birefringent Crystal<br />

p only<br />

s & p<br />

Polarizer λ<br />

Polarizer<br />

Birefringent crystal polarizers tend to have very limited aperture size due to the high cost of growing good optical-quality<br />

Polarizing Bandpass Filter<br />

crystals, and they are not well suited for imaging applications. Besides a somewhat limited wavelength range, the main<br />

limitations of glass film polarizers are low transmission of the desired light and low optical damage threshold, making them<br />

unsuitable for many laser applications.<br />

s only<br />

Thin-film Plate<br />

Polarizer<br />

p only<br />

s & p<br />

s only<br />

Birefringent Crystal<br />

Polarizer<br />

s only<br />

p only<br />

s & p<br />

Glass Film<br />

Polarizer<br />

p only<br />

p only<br />

s & p<br />

NIR Filters Mirrors Polarizers<br />

Edge<br />

Filters<br />

Dichroic<br />

Beamsplitters<br />

Laser-line<br />

Filters<br />

Laser Diode<br />

Filters<br />

Notch<br />

Filters<br />

p only<br />

Glass Film<br />

Polarizer<br />

<strong>Semrock</strong>’s ion beam sputtering technology has enabled breakthrough<br />

improvements in performance of traditional thin-film plate polarizers.<br />

Foremost among these is contrast – <strong>Semrock</strong> polarizers are guaranteed<br />

to achieve higher than 1,000,000:1 contrast, rivaled only by the lowertransmission<br />

and low optical damage-threshold glass film polarizers. And,<br />

only <strong>Semrock</strong> polarizers can achieve unique spectral performance like our<br />

patented “polarizing bandpass filters” (see figure on the right).<br />

s & p<br />

s & p<br />

s only<br />

s & p<br />

p only<br />

Polarizing Bandpass Filter<br />

T<br />

p<br />

s<br />

λ<br />

Lamp Clean-up<br />

Filters<br />

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