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Polarization of Light. Introduction. Light, viewed classically, is a transverse electromagnetic wave. Namely, the underlying os-cillation (in this case oscillating electric and magnetic elds) is along directions perpendicular to the direction of propagation.
Polarization. The Electric field direction defines the polarization of light. Since light is a transverse wave, the electric field can point in any direction transverse to the direction of propagation.
concerned with the polarization of light. The most elegant tests of quantum mechanics have been performed by measuring correlations of the polarization of photons from atomic transitions.
Lecture 14: Polarization. 1 Polarization vectors. In the last lecture, we showed that Maxwell’s equations admit plane wave solutions. = E0ei k·x−ωt , B = B0ei k·x−ωt. Here, E0 and B0 are called the polarization vectors for the electric and magnetic fields. These are complex 3 dimensional vectors.
Polarization is a fundamental property of light and a very important concept of physical optics. Not all sources of light are polarized; for instance, light from an ordinary light bulb is not polarized. In addition to unpolarized light, there is partially polarized light and totally polarized light.
the E-field points defines the polarization and this can be random in un-polarized light, fixed in space in linearly polarized light or rotating in space in the case of elliptically or circularly polarized light. We will study how to produce, manipulate and analyse the state of polarization of light.
We describe the polarization of a light wave (without any interface nearby) according to how the E-field vector varies in a projection onto a plane perpendicular to the propagation direction.
