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Solution: Click For PDF Version We resolve the linearly polarized light into two components: one in which vibrations are in the plane determined by the direction of propagation and the optic axis, and the other in which the vibrations are in the plane perpendicular to the first plane.(a) As
the plane of vibration of the incident light is at
(b)
Let us assume
a right-circularly polarized light is incident on the half-wave
plate. As an additional phase difference of
(c) An unpolarized light will emerge as an unpolarized light after passing through a half-wave plate. |
to the optic axis of the plate), (b)
circularly polarized light,
and (c) unpolarized
light.
and the resultant vibration will be plane polarized but the
direction of linear polarization will have rotated by
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