Linear polarizers

Let us consider the scheme showed in Fig. I to calculate the field scattered by a rough cylindrical surface (i.e. a wire). The wire is illuminated by a monochromatic, linearly polarized plane wave at an angle of incidence a with its axis of symmetry. The surface is described, in a system fixed to the wire, by p = h (cylindrical coordinates. We shall denote the incident wave vector lying on the x-z plane as kj and the emergent wave vector simply as k. 

An interesting aspect of two-photon spectroscopy is that some polarization infonnation is obtainable even for randomly oriented molecules in solution by studymg the effect of the relative polarization of die two photons. This is readily done by comparing linearly and circularly polarized light. Transitions to A states will absorb linearly polarized light more strongly than circularly polarized light. The reverse is true of transitions to B ... 

A RIKES experunent is essentially identical to that of CW CARS, except the probe laser need not be tunable. The probe beam is linearly polarized at 0° (—>), while the polarization of the tunable pump beam is controlled by a linear polarizer and a quarter waveplate. The pump and probe beams, whose frequency difference must match the Raman frequency, are overlapped in the sample (just as in CARS). The strong pump beam propagating tlirough a nonlinear medium induces an anisotropic change in the refractive mdices seen by tlie weaker probe wave, which alters the polarization of a probe beam [96]. The signal field is polarized orthogonally to the probe laser and any altered polarization may be detected as an increase in intensity transmitted tlirough a crossed polarizer. When the pump beam is Imearly polarized at 45° y), contributions... 

In analogy with the depolarization ratio for linearly polarized light, the ratio of the two above quantities is known as the reversal coefficient, R(Q, given by... 

The linear snsceptibility, x]] is the factor that relates the indnced linear polarization to the applied field ... 

FigureBl.5.16 Rotational relaxation of Coumarin 314 molecules at the air/water interface. The change in the SFI signal is recorded as a fimction of the time delay between the pump and probe pulses. Anisotropy in the orientational distribution is created by linearly polarized pump radiation in two orthogonal directions in the surface. (After [90].)...

To simplify FECO evaluation, it is conmion practice to experimentally filter out one of the components by the use of a linear polarizer after the interferometer. Mica bireftingence can, however, be useftil to study thin films of birefringent molecules [49] between the surfaces. Rabinowitz [53] has presented an eigenvalue analysis of birefringence in the multiple beam interferometer. 

Non-polarized electromagnetic radiation, of course, comprises two perpendicular polarizations, which can change both in amplipide and in phase with respect to each other. If the two polarizations are in phase with each other, the resultant is just another linearly polarized beam, with the resultant polarization direction given by a simple vector addition of the... 

Che D P, Shapiro D B, Esquerra R M and Kliger D S 1994 Ultrasensitive time-resolved linear dichroism spectral measurements using near-crossed linear polarizers Chem. Rhys. Lett. 224 145-54... 

Let us consider tire case of a donor-acceptor pair where tire acceptor, after capturing excitation from tire donor, can emit a photon of fluorescence. If tire excitation light is linearly polarized, tire acceptor emission generally has a different polarization. Common quantitative expressions of tliis effect are tire anisotropy of fluorescence, r, or tire degree of polarization,... 

When light is incident on a material, the optical electric field E results in a polarization P of the material. The polarization can be expressed as the sum of the linear polarization and a nonlinear polarization P ... 

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