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Although efficiencies higher than one have previously in sodium L10]. these very large have led to the first observation of a c. w. an empty PC cavity, bounded by an ordinary mirror and the PC Na mirror the gain medium is actuall.y the PC mirror itself. Pump depletion correlated to the PC oscillation has been monitored, and the polarization characteristics of the self-osciHat 1ng beam have been explored for various pump polarizations (linear. circular. etc. ..) C9]. In... 

While two-photon absorption spectroscopy has been widely applied for precision measurements of atomic structure, the polarization correlation of the simultaneous two-photon emission from the metastable Is state of atomic hydrogen has only been measured very recently. The emission of the coincident two photons can be described by a single state vector which determines the circular and linear two-photon polarization. Compared to the two-photon cascade experiments the polarization correlation of the simultaneous two-photon decay of metastable hydrogen is conceptually closer to the original proposals by Bell and Bohm for tests of the foundation of quantum mechanics. More than SO years have elapsed since the famous Einstein-Bohr debate on microphysical reality and quantum formalism. The present and future outcome of the hydrogen two-photon correlation experiment is considered to be a most crucial test with regard to the rivalry between quantum mechanics and local realistic theories. 

Recently, an interesting correlation between the laser pulse polarization and the ellipticity of the electron beam profile has been observed [71]. However, no major influence of laser polarization on the efficiency of the electron acceleration processes has been observed so far, nor this influence has been predicted by theory and simulations, differently from the proton acceleration. For proton acceleration, a great improvement on bunch charge and quality are expected by using circularly polarized laser pulses focused on thin foils at ultra-high intensities [72-74]. 

Most of the time-resolved emission spectroscopy setups are home made in the sense that they are built from individual devices (laser, detection system,. ..) hence they are not of a plug and press type, so that their exact characteristics may vary from one installation to the other. Some of these differences have no impact on the overall capabilities of the system but some have a drastic influence on the way the collected data are processed and analysed. This aspect will be detailed in the next section, while this section deals with a general description of the apparatus. The most basic type of apparatus will be described, with no reference to sophisticated techniques such as Time Correlated Single Photon Counting or Circularly Polarized Luminescence devices. 

The optical rotation of a medium may be considered to depend on the refractive indices toward left- and right-circularly polarized light. Calculation of the optical rotation for any particular structure requires a knowledge of the electronic wave-functions, but these are too complicated to be used for complex molecules. However, a number of empirical correlations have been developed. 

Bell s theorem is by now a well-established experimental fact. The most accurate experiments have been based on analogs of the EPR-Bohm experiment measuring photon polarizations rather than spins of massive particles. Instead of spin-up and spin-down states, photons can have right and left circular polarizations. In certain processes, two photons with correlated polarizations—one left, one right— can be emitted in opposite directions. Wheeler had proposed in 1946 that the pair of photons emitted in the annihilation of positronium (see Fig. 7.12) were entangled with opposite polarizations. This was experimentally confirmed by Wu and Shaknov in 1949. 

Figure 9. The field correlation function for the circular polarization configuration of the instrument, shown for a range of particle aspect ratios.

A comparison of the circular polarization with nightly averaged visual magnitudes compiled from [88], which are sensitive to the dust and gas production rates, and the water production rate [89-91] for this observational period shows that the degree of circular polarization in the tail is strongly correlated with cometary activity (Fig. 10). 

Use of polarized light to excite fluorescence, and measurement of the state of polarization of the emitted light introduce another set of measurable parameters that can characterize structures and dynamics of molecules. The anisotropy of the polarization of fluoresence after excitation by linearly polarized light provides the rotational diffusion coefficient, or rotational correlation time, of the fluorophore. When there is fluorescence energy transfer, analysis of the anisotropy of both donor and acceptor can reveal the relative orientation, and the relative motion. Measurement of fluorescence after excitation by circularly polarized light provides the fluorescence-detected circular dichroism. This measurement characterizes the chiral environment of the ground state of the fluorophore. If the circular polarization of the fluorescence is measured, the circularly polarized luminescence is obtained. This measurement characterizes the chirality of the excited state. 

At the selective reflection wavelength, a component of linearly polarized light, e.g., right-handed or left-handed circularly polarized light, is totally reflected without a phase reversal by a twisted helicoidal structure at a wavelength correlated to the pitch P. An oblique incident of light is presumed onto the substrate plane or nematic sheet (see Fig. 3)... 

Polarization and dichroism methods, such as variable circular dichroism (VCD) and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD), are used to determine band assignments in complex molecules. By using various models, polarization features can be correlated with the observed positions of bands in the near-infrared spectra. Absorption bands are assigned to short-axis polarized Q transitions measured using such techniques. 

Fig. 12.10 The passage of a beam of linearly polarized light through an optically active molecule. Note the rotation of the plane of polarization and correlate this with the different behaviour of the two circularly polarized components within the molecule.

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