Abstract

This paper presents the spectral dependences of the phase shift and the position of the optic axis for three-, five-, and seven-component zero-order wave plates fabricated from polymethyl methacrylate, which possesses artificially produced anisotropy. Besides this, the dependences of the phase shift of the wave plates on the angle of incidence of the rays and the temperature are presented, along with the spectral dependence of the transmittance of the plates.

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