Meadowlark Optics

Polarizers

Meadowlark Polarizers Offer:

Wide Range of Options – Circular, Linear, and Beam splitting categories.
Broad Wavelength Capabilities – Our standard polarizers are designed for use in the 220-nm to 6-micron range (with custom options up to 15 microns.)
High Quality and Precision – Meadowlark Optics is proud to provide our customers with industry-leading specifications including excellent surface quality, high extinction ratio, low transmitted wavefront distortion, and more.
Custom Solutions – Prism clusters, attached retarders, odd shapes and sizes – while we are delighted to provide you one of our standard components or systems, we are just as happy to customize a solution that more exactly fits your needs.

What Polarizers Do - The Basics

A polarizer is a type of optical filter that only allows light waves of a certain type to go through, while blocking other types. It can turn a mixed or undefined light beam into a clear, polarized light beam. There are two main kinds of polarizers: linear and circular. They’re used in many areas such as photography, LCD technology, and various optical tools. Not only for visible light, polarizers can also work with other electromagnetic waves like radio waves, microwaves, and X-rays. Linear polarizers can be absorptive, which means they absorb unwanted light types, reflective, which means they reflect unwanted light types, or beam-splitting, which means they break the light beam into two opposite types. Circular polarizers can make circularly polarized light or selectively let through or block light that’s spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise. Meadowlark offers both linear and circular polarizers.

Beam Separator showing colors

Beam Separator

KEY FEATURES High isolation Large diameters available Low transmitted wavefront distortion

Broadband Beamsplitting Polarizer

KEY FEATURES Broadband use Reflective polarizer Large acceptance angle

Deep UV Polarizers

Deep Ultraviolet Polarizer

KEY FEATURES Works between 245 to 285 nm Wire grid polarizer High...

Selection of Dichroic Circular Polarizers

Dichroic Circular Polarizer

KEY FEATURES High extinction ratios Excellent surface quality Wide angular acceptance Low...

glan thompson polarizers

Glan-Thompson Polarizer

KEY FEATURES Broad spectral range Excellent extinction ratio

group of high contrast linear polarizers

High Contrast Linear Polarizer

KEY FEATURES Very high contrast High transmission Absorptive dichroic glass

Versalight Wire Grid Beamsplitting Cubes

ICE Cube™ Wiregrid Polarizing Beamsplitter

KEY FEATURES Wide angle of incidence range Uniformity over wide range of...

Laser line beamsplitting cubes

Laser Line Beamsplitting Polarizer

KEY FEATURES High contrast Low reflectance Low transmitted wavefront distortion

Example of an MWIR Polarizer

MWIR Polarizer

KEY FEATURES Excellent contrast ratio Thin profile High transmission Custom apertures >...

Precision Linear Polarizer

KEY FEATURES High extinction ratios Excellent surface quality Wide angular acceptance Low...

ultra broadband polarizer

Ultra Broadband Polarizers, Mounted

KEY FEATURES Extremely broadband Wide acceptance angle Custom sizes and shapes Excellent...

ultra-high contrast linear polarizer side by side

Ultra-High Contrast Polarizer

KEY FEATURES Extremely high contrast, greater than 10,000,000:1 Unlaminated part usable to...

Versalight Wire Grid Beamsplitting Cubes

Versalight™ Wiregrid Polarizing Beamsplitter

KEY FEATURES Broadband wavelength range, 420-2600 nm Wide acceptance angle Custom sizes...

Wire Grid Versalight™ Polarizer

KEY FEATURES Broadband use Reflective polarizer Large acceptance angle