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An optical attenuator is built by combining two linear polarizers and a half wave plate. Thorlabs offers an all-in-one attenuator that will reduce brightness as well as accentuate contrast. This application note briefly describes polarized light, retardation and a few of the tools used to manipulate the polarization state of light. For high energy, ultrafast laser applications, common polarizer technologies used for variable attenuation do not fulfill the complete set of requirements to extinction ratio, transmission level, bandwidth, transmitted wavefront distortion, GDD ripple and energy handling capability.

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