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Polarization Overview - Part 2: Waveplates & Retarders (Advanced)

Waveplates and retarders are optical components designed to transmit light while modifying its polarization state without attenuating, deviating, or displacing the beam.

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Fresnel Lens Review

Fresnel lenses are composed of a series of concentric grooves etched into one side of a sheet of plastic. Fresnel lenses are unlike typical spherical or aspherical optical lenses.

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Polarization Overview - Part 1: Polarization Basics

Polarizers are optical components designed to filter, modify, or analyze the various polarization states of light.

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Edmund Optics Imaging Lab 2.1: Distortion

Learn how to specify imaging system components.

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Polarization Overview - Part 2: Waveplates & Retarders (Advanced)

Fresnel Lens Review

Polarization Overview - Part 1: Polarization Basics

Edmund Optics Imaging Lab 2.1: Distortion

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Glossary

Polarization Overview - Part 2: Waveplates & Retarders (Advanced)

Fresnel Lens Review

Polarization Overview - Part 1: Polarization Basics

Edmund Optics Imaging Lab 2.1: Distortion

Edmund Optics^®

Verified library of trusted technical resources created by our 240+ global engineers.