Right-circular light passes through a quarter-wave plate (QWP) with horizontal fast axis. What is the state of polarization of the light that emerges from the QWP.
Right-circular light passes through a quarter-wave plate (QWP) with horizontal fast axis.
10. Linear light polarized in the x-direction, Ē=iE, cos(k-ot), passes through a quarter-wave plate whose fast axis is π6 rad above the x-axis, write down the electric field of the emerging light. What is the resulting polarization?
10. Linear light polarized in the x-direction, Ē=iE, cos(k-ot), passes through a quarter-wave plate whose fast axis is π6 rad above the x-axis, write down the electric field of the emerging light. What is the resulting polarization?
Problem 3. (15 points in total) Quarter-wave retarder. The quarter-wave plate transforms light initially linearly polarized at an angle 45 (oscillating in the first and third quadrants) into right- circular light (rotating clockwise looking toward the source) when the fast axis of the waveplate is located vertically as shown in Figure 1 Prove that A(L)A(Qy)A(+45) where A is Jones matrix for L, Qy +45 which means left circular polarization, quarter-waveplate (fast axis on y-axis), +45 linear polarization. Fast axis wave...
(1) Using Jones Matrix for a quarter-wave plate with fast axis vertigal, find the Jones Matrix for the same quarter-wave plate with 45 degree rotation. (2) The Jones Matrix for the same quarter-wave plate with 30 degree rotation.
A monochromatic laser beam of intensity Io = 659 W/m2 is polarized in the y-direction and propagates in the positive z-direction. This beam is incident upon a quarter-wave plate whose fast axis makes an angle of 45 degrees with the x-axis as shown. Following the quarter-wave plate are two polarizers; the transmission axis of the first polarizer is aligned with the x-axis, while the transmission axis of the second polarizer makes an angle of θ1 = 72 degrees with the...
#6. (10 points) Using Jones vectors and matrices: Suppose right-circularly polarized light is incident on a quarter wave plate with fast axis at an angle to the x-axis. Show that the output is linearly polarized and find the polarization angle.
Light with a certain intensity passes through 2 polarizing lenses. Unpolarized light passed through the 1stlens, and the resultant polarized light the passes through the 2ndlens which has its transmission axis set at a 57owith respect to the first lens. What percent of the original intensity emerges from the first lens? What percent of the original intensity emerges from the second lens?
A beam of light is polarized all along the y-axis, and passes through a polarizer that has its polarization axis 45° from the y-axis. 1) What fraction of the original electric field amplitude E0 makes it through the polarizer? What direction is it now polarized in? 2) Knowing that the intensity of light is proportional to the square of the amplitude of the electric field, what fraction of the original intensity I0 makes it through the polarizer?
6. Polarization: What does it mean for light to be polarized? As light passes through a polarized material the filter will reduce the smount of light transmitted as well as set a new angle of polarization for the emerging light. Write down the equa the amount of light transmitted by a filter. 1dentify what each term in this equation represents. tion used to find Example: Unpolarized light strikes the polarizer shown. Determine the amount of light (percemd) that emerges from...
Unpolarized light with intensity 350W/m^2 passes first through a polarizing filter with its axis vertical, then through a second polarizing filter. It emerges from the second filter with intensity 131 W/m^2. What is the angle from vertical; of the axis of the second polarizing filter?