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Perkins Precision Developments - Plate Polarizers LB 4/24
Photonics Dictionary

half-wave voltage

That voltage required across a Pockels, Kerr or other electro-optic light modulator to retard one polarization electrical vector by one-half a wavelength relative to the other. It corresponds to a 90° rotation of the incident plane polarized light.
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