Electromagnetic plane-polarized

Plane-polarized electromagnetic radiation showing the electric field, the magnetic field, and the direction of propagation. 

Electric field component of plane-polarized electromagnetic radiation. 

Figure 2.1 Plane-polarized electromagnetic radiation travelling along the x axis Ey is the electric component is the magnetic component...

Plane-polarized light (Section 9.3) Ordinary light that has its electromagnetic waves oscillating in a single plane rather than in random planes. The plane of polarization is rotated when the light is passed through a solution of a chiral substance. 

If the foregoing created the impression that the electric and magnetic vectors of a propagating electromagnetic field are confined to vibrate in fixed planes, that was unintentional. A field like that would be plane polarized and to create that requires a special device known as a polarizer. Ordinary unpolarized light consists of an array of plane waves that are randomly oriented with respect to a plane perpendicular to the directions of propagation. 

The polarization characteristics of an electromagnetic plane wave traveling (in direction z) through a succession of nonabsorbing and nonreflecting optical... 

The nonzero angular momentum which does not exist for circularly and plane polarized conventional electromagnetic waves... 

Figure 18-1 Plane-polarized electromagnetic radiation of wavelength K. propagating along the x-axis. The electric field of plane-polarized light is confined to a single plane. Ordinary, unpolarized light has electric field components in all planes.

Plane-polarized light (Section 7.4) A light beam in which the electromagnetic field of all the waves oscillate in a single plane. 

At the surface of metals, the surface plasmon-polaritons, also called "surface plasmons," are not the same as the "bulk" plasmons these surface plasmons are affected (i.e., shifted slightly in energy) by monolayer adsorbates thus Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) spectroscopy yields information about the nature of the binding of the adsorbates onto a metal surface. The surface plasmons are excited by a p-polarized electromagnetic wave (polarized in the plane of the film) that crosses a glass medium (1), such as a prism, and is partially reflected by a metallic film (2) and back into the glass medium the dispersion relation is... 

On metal surfaces, two additional selection mles apply. The first is that only vibrations perpendicular to the surface are HREELS active. This mle follows from two phenomena unique at metal surfaces " (i) Electromagnetic waves polarized perpendicularly to the plane of incidence (parallel to the plane of the surface) undergo a 180° phase shift upon reflection. That is, at the metal surface, the out-of-phase electric-field vectors of the incident and reflected waves cancel each other as a result, no field exists that can couple with dipoles that oscillate parallel to the surface, (ii) The dynamic dipole moment generated by an oscillator that vibrates in the surface-parallel direction is cancelled by that of its image dipole (Figure 1) hence, there the net dynamic dipole moment is zero. On the other hand, if the real dipole is oriented perpendicularly to the surface, its dynamic dipole moment is reinforced by that of its image dipole. This selection mle is the same as that for infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy (1RAS).°... 

As already discussed earlier in this book, light consists of a sinusoidally changing electric field normal to, and in phase with, a sinusoidally changing magnetic field. It is the electric vector of the electromagnetic wave that affects matter and thus can be sensed and measured. The plane of the electric vector in normal light takes no particular orientation, but in plane polarized light the electric vector is... 

Plane-polarized light Electromagnetic radiation in which the electric vectors of the waves are confined to a single plane. 

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