POLARIZATION OF LIGHT BY HALF-WAVE PLATE

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*An ENGLISH instruction manual with elaborate experimental procedures and block diagram etc. shall be provided with the training system set-up.

The polarization of light experiment can be simply explained using a wave plate which acts as a retarder is an optical device that alters the polarization state of a light beam traveling through it. In the present setup, the diode laser light passes through polarizer to produce linearly polarized light. It then passes through the half wave plate λ/2. The λ/2 plate produces linear polarized light. For different angles of the λ/2 plate with respect to optic axis only the polarization plane changes. The maximum and minimum are not changed which can be investigated with the analyzer over the range -90 to +90 degrees.

Vital topics:

• Polarization.
• Malus law.
• Polarizer, Analyser.
• Half-wave plate.
• Plane of polarization.

Details

• Monochromatic light.
• Computer connectivity in advanced model.
• Precise measurement using light sensor.

List

• Exp-1 To measure the light intensity of plane polarised light as a function of the analyzer position.
• Exp-2 To study the polarization of light by half wave plate.
• Exp-3 To verify the inverse square law.
• Exp-4 To verify Malus-law.