• Using diagrams of the corkscrew shape of a circularly polarized electric field, drawn in your notebook, show that “right-handed” (RH) light according to the handedness convention is “left circularly …

Passing this polarized light through a second polarizer allows only the components that are parallel to the polarizing axis to emerge while the orthogonal component is absorbed.

They are most useful in the presence of brightly illuminated, highly reflective surfaces such as automobile glass, water or snow. Explain how you could determine if a pair of sunglasses has …

Scattered light is linearly polarized when viewed at 90o from the scatterers; & partially polarized at other angles. When scattering particles ~ wavelength, it’s called Mie scattering, which is a more general …

The sum or the radiation from all dipoles is polarized in a direction that depends on the relative phases of the dipoles, which changes every 10 ns or so (called the coherence time).

Polarization describes the direction of the oscillating electric field, a distinct concept from dipoles per volume in a material P – also called polarization. In this chapter, we develop a formalism for …

Light may be polarized by crystals, by polarizing filters, and by reflection. Reflected light is partially polarized, favoring the vibration direction perpendicular to the plane of the ray path (including both …