Translations for „quarter-wave“ in the English » German Dictionary

ˈquar·ter-wave ADJ attr, inv PHYS

quarter-wave

Lambda-Viertel-

quarter-wave plate

Lambda-Viertel-Plättchen nt

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quarter-wave plate

Lambda-Viertel-Plättchen nt

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English

A homogenous circular polarizer can be created by sandwiching a linear polarizer between two quarter-wave plates.

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Now imagine the circularly polarized light which has already passed through the quarter-wave plate once, turned around and directed back toward the circular polarizer again.

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The analyzer-side quarter-wave plate converts the circular polarization state back to linear before the light passes through the analyzer.

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To create right-handed, clockwise circularly polarized light one simply rotates the axis of the quarter-wave plate 90 relative to the linear polarizer.

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The linearly polarized beam from the laser then passes through a rotating quarter-wave retarder.

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First note that a quarter-wave plate always transforms circularly polarized light into linearly polarized light.

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Because this is a half-wave antenna, it provides a small gain over a quarter-wave ground-plane antenna.

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It includes complex, real, sine, cosine, and quarter-wave transforms.

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The ditch thus constitutes a quarter-wave resonant short-circuit stub, and has a high (ideally infinite) input impedance at its mouth.

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A whistle is a quarter-wave generator, which means that a sound wave generated by a whistle is about four times the whistle length.

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