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Microscopic wave-plate flaws steer leaked laser light away from the detector
A TU Darmstadt-led team found that sub-visible flaws in a quarter-wave plate reshape the light leaking through crossed polarizers into two lobes that mostly miss the detector, which is where the very large suppression numbers come from.
Publishers:phys.org
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