quarter-wave plate
Optics and Crystallography
noun
A plate of a birefringent substance cut parallel to the optic axis and of such a thickness that it introduces a phase difference of 90 degrees between ordinary and extraordinary rays passing normally through it.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Joseph Everett (1831–1904), physicist and mathematician.
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