quarter-wave plate









quarter-wave plate


quarter-wave plate [kwawr-ter-weyv] Word Origin noun Optics.

  1. a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 90° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby converting circularly polarized light into plane polarized light.

Compare half-wave plate. Origin of quarter-wave plate First recorded in 1880–85

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