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Tunable quarter-wave plate for determining light wavelength

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In order to assess the possibility of using a tunable quarter-wave plate for determining light wavelength, we have studied the propagation of coherent and incoherent light through a system consisting of two identical birefringent (mica) crystals with various parameters and determined the adjustable mutual rotation angle as a function of the light wavelength. The principal possibility of determining a change in the wavelength of coherent light to within 0.03 nm in a 3 nm range is demonstrated.

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  1. Joint Nonlinear Optics Laboratory, Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences and South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia

    N. D. Kundikova & A. M. Suvorova

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Original Russian Text © N.D. Kundikova, A.M. Suvorova, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 21–28.

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Kundikova, N.D., Suvorova, A.M. Tunable quarter-wave plate for determining light wavelength. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 63–66 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785009010192

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