Reducing symmetric polarization aberrations in a molded glass lens by annealing

Russell A. Chipman; Justin Wolfe

doi:10.1117/12.618198

Reducing symmetric polarization aberrations in a molded glass lens by annealing

Russell A. Chipman, Justin Wolfe

Optical Sciences

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Abstract

Mueller matrix imaging polarimetry was used to study stress in a series of a high numerical aperture molded glass lenses. An interesting radially symmetric retardance was found which resembled the polarization aberration induced by coatings. Upon investigation the source of the polarization aberration is traced to a remarkably symmetric radial stress birefringence in the glass believed to arise during fire-polishing of the surfaces. While annealing the lenses relieves much of the stress birefringence, reducing the retardance of the lenses by a factor of five, the lenses remained unusable for critical polarization applications.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	588809
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5888
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.618198
State	Published - 2005
Event	Polarization Science and Remote Sensing II - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Aug 2 2005 → Aug 4 2005

Keywords

Annealing
Depolarization
Polarimetry
Polarization aberration
Retardance

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Reducing symmetric polarization aberrations in a molded glass lens by annealing

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