Polarized light electric field vector diagrams

Fig. 6.23. The direction of the electric-field vector of the electromagnetic wave defines the direction of polarization. In the upper diagram, the electric-field vector travels in the y-direction (y-polarized light), and in the lower diagram, in the x-direction (x-polarized light).

Fig. 3.9 Schematic diagram of the electric field vector showing possible states of polarized light. With linear or plane polarized light (A) the electric field remains in a plane. In circularly polarized light (B) the electric field changes direction, but has constant magnitude. In elliptically polarized light (C), the electric field changes in magnitude and direction, tracing out an ellipse.

Fig. 2.14 Schematic diagram of a rotating analyzCT ellipsometer (RAE) and the Jones matrix representation for each comptment. The blue lines repiestait the trajectory of the electric field vector of the propagating light. The difference in the representations of the analyzer and polarizer is due to the angles a and ra being measured in opposite directions...

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