half-wave plate

half-wave plate
/haf"wayv', hahf"-/, Optics.
a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization. Cf. quarter-wave plate.
[1900-05]

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