Adjustable beam alignment compensator/retarder with application in spectroscopic ellipsometer and polarimeter systems

摘要

Disclosed is a compensator/retarder system which allows adjustment to eliminate introduction of significant deviation and/or displacement into the propagation direction of a beam of electromagnetic radiation caused to interact therewith, even when the present invention retarder system is caused to continuously rotate in a rotating compensator ellipsometer system. Also disclosed is a method of calibration of an ellipsometer/polarimeter system which includes a present invention compensator/retarder system.