Kerr - June 9, 2016

Optics table set up

Today I set up the optics table media:Optics_setup1.pdf - Diagram of first optics set up

I also performed an experiment to understand how the power (or amount of photons) is affected by the rotation of the polarizer.

As the polarizer rotates, only some of the vertically polarized light is allowed through.

I used ND filter 2. Meaning the intensity of the light was reduced/divided by a factor of 10^2

HW.. Understand the math behind Right Circular, Left Circular and Elliptically Polarized light