About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Jones calculus, Optical rotation, Dichroism, Circular dichroism, Transverse wave, Circular polarization, Magnetic circular dichroism, Polaroid, Elliptical polarization, Brewster's angle, Linear polarization, Wave plate, Birefringence, Polarizer, Photon polarization, Rayleigh sky model, Chirality, Kerr effect, Vibrational circular dichroism, Stokes parameters, Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions of the electromagnetic wave equation, Faraday effect, Pockels effect, Chiral Photonics, Polarizing filter, Iceland spar, Polarimeter, Depolarizer, Polarizability, Polaroid Eyewear, Polarization mode dispersion, Levorotation and dextrorotation, Photoelastic modulator, Magnetization reversal by circularly polarized light, Mueller calculus, Dichroic LEDGlass, Polarimetry, Polarization in astronomy, Radial polarization, Glan-Taylor prism, Glan-Foucault prism, Fresnel rhomb, Senarmont prism, Fresnel-Arago laws, Herapathite, Nicol prism, Optic axis of a crystal, Glan-Thompson prism, Polarization rotator, Nomarski prism, Wollaston prism, Pfeiffer Effect, Rochon prism, Degree of polarization, Cotton effect, Optical rotatory dispersion, Extinction cross. Excerpt: Polarization (also polarisation) is a property of certain types of waves that describes the orientation of their oscillations. Electromagnetic waves, such as light, and gravitational waves exhibit polarization; acoustic waves (sound waves) in a gas or liquid do not have polarization because the direction of vibration and direction of propagation are the same. By convention, the polarization of light is described by specifying the orientation of the wave's electric field at a point in space over one period of the oscillation. When light travels in free space, in most cases it propagates as a transverse wave-the polarization is perpendicular to the wave's direction of travel. In th...
