Broadband quarter- and half-wave plates manufactured with cellophane films

IF 4.2 3区材料科学 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Optical Materials Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI:10.1016/j.optmat.2025.117526

Kazuaki Marusawa , Hirofumi Mino

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Abstract

Low-cost, quarter- and half-wave plates operating across the visible spectrum (410–750 nm) are fabricated using multiple layers of cellophane tape. By optimizing the number of birefringent layers, rotation angle, and optical path differences, Jones matrix calculations predict extremely high theoretical accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate over 95 % linear polarization for the half-wave plate and 99 % circular polarization for the quarter-wave plate. Experimental results using handmade assemblies verify these calculations, suggesting strong potential for educational applications without specialized tools.

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用玻璃纸薄膜制造的宽带四分之一波和半波板

低成本的四分之一波和半波板在可见光谱（410-750纳米）上工作，使用多层玻璃纸胶带制造。通过优化双折射层数、旋转角度和光程差，琼斯矩阵计算预测了极高的理论精度。实验结果表明，半波片的线偏振率超过95%，四分之一波片的圆偏振率超过99%。使用手工组装的实验结果验证了这些计算，表明在没有专门工具的情况下，教育应用具有强大的潜力。

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Optical Materials 工程技术-材料科学：综合

CiteScore

6.60

自引率

12.80%

发文量

1265

审稿时长

38 days

期刊介绍： Optical Materials has an open access mirror journal Optical Materials: X, sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review. The purpose of Optical Materials is to provide a means of communication and technology transfer between researchers who are interested in materials for potential device applications. The journal publishes original papers and review articles on the design, synthesis, characterisation and applications of optical materials. OPTICAL MATERIALS focuses on: • Optical Properties of Material Systems; • The Materials Aspects of Optical Phenomena; • The Materials Aspects of Devices and Applications. Authors can submit separate research elements describing their data to Data in Brief and methods to Methods X.