A Rotating Waveplate Polarization Analyzer

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This Demonstration lets you create any type of polarized light to see the intensity as the light passes through a polarization analyzer consisting of a rotating waveplate followed by a fixed linear polarizer. There is a constraint on the Stokes vector for partially or completely polarized light: ; if you select
,
, and
that do not fulfill the constraint, an error message is shown.
is set to be 1.
Contributed by: Beth Schaefer and Edward Collett (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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"A Rotating Waveplate Polarization Analyzer"
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Published: March 7 2011