1. Announcements 11/1/10 Prayer Test going on… Lab 7 due on Friday

2. Horizontally Polarized Light Credit: the next few slides are from Dr. Durfee

3. Vertically Polarized Light

4. Diagonally Polarized Light

5. Circularly Polarized Light

6. Elliptically Polarized Light

7. Unpolarized Light

8. Thought question What type of polarization is displayed in the animation? http://stokes.byu.edu/emwave_flash.html http://stokes.byu.edu/emwave_flash.html a. a.Horizontally polarized b. b.Vertically polarized c. c.Other polarized d. d.Non-polarized

9. Circularly Polarized, pictures Pictures from Wikipedia

10. Polarizers Lines of wires Polaroid Film Crystals Polaroid film Crystals www.thorlabs.com

11. Thought question If you send horizontal linearly polarized light through a (perfect) vertical polarizer, how much of the light intensity will get through? a. a.0-20% b. b.20-40% c. c.40-60% d. d.60-80% e. e.80-100%

12. Thought question If you send horizontal linearly polarized light at 45  through a perfect vertical polarizer, how much of the light intensity will get through? a. a.0-20% b. b.20-40% c. c.40-60% d. d.60-80% e. e.80-100%

13. Thought question If you send circularly polarized light through a perfect vertical polarizer, how much of the light intensity will get through? a. a.0-20% b. b.20-40% c. c.40-60% d. d.60-80% e. e.80-100%

14. Thought question (Like HW 27-2) If you send horizontal linearly polarized light through a vertical polarizer, no light gets through because there is no component of the electric field in the light wave that is oscillating vertically. If you insert a diagonal polarizer at 45  between the two, how much of the light intensity will now get through the final polarizer? a. a.0-20% b. b.20-40% c. c.40-60% d. d.60-80% e. e.80-100%

15. Demos Polarization configurations

16. Reading Quiz What do we call the angle at which light, reflected off of a (non-conducting) surface, is completely polarized? a. a.Brewster’s Angle b. b.Euler’s Angle c. c.Maxwell’s Angle d. d.Snell’s Angle e. e.Sorenson’s Angle

17. Remember these? (Fresnel Coefficients) If near perpendicular (1-D problem) For arbitrary angle (you don’t need to know for this class) What is s-polar? What is p-polar?

18. Plots for air (n=1) to glass (n=1.5) s-polarizationp-polarization field amplitudes vs  intensities vs  r t R T r t R T field amplitudes vs  intensities vs  Brewster’s angle! Do you always get a 180  phase shift upon reflection?

19. Fresnel Coefficients, cont. If near perpendicular (1-D problem) For arbitrary angle (you don’t need to know for this class) Set numerator = 0, apply Snell’s Law… lots of algebra/trig… tan  1 = n 2 /n 1

20. Thought question If you send an unpolarized beam at a piece of glass at Brewster’s angle, what happens? a. a.The reflected beam is partially polarized b. b.The reflected beam is completely polarized c. c.The transmitted beam is partially polarized d. d.The transmitted beam is completely polarized e. e.More than one of the above Applications: Sunglasses Laser “Brewster windows”

21. Brewster’s angle Why does the light “care” about 90  ? Image from Wikipedia

22. Reflection: microscopic details How does the wire-line polarizer work? Reflection off of a surface a. a.Why are metals better reflectors than insulators are? b. b.What is the emitted light from an oscillating electron? Brewster’s angle: reflected ray at 90  to transmitted ray a. a.What happens to p-polarization at this angle?