Demonstrating optical birefringence—A modification of Schneider’s experiment

Camp, Paul R.

doi:10.1119/1.18625

American Journal of Physics

1997

DOI: 10.1119/1.18625

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Demonstrating optical birefringence—A modification of Schneider’s experiment

Paul R. Camp

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Experimental method to characterize the retardance function of optical variable retarders

López-Téllez¹,

Bruce²,

Delgado-Aguillón³

et al. 2015

American Journal of Physics

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In this work, we present an experimental method to characterize variable optical retarders, which can have linear or non-linear behavior of the retardance variation. A theoretical analysis of such is presented using a combination of Stokes vectors and Mueller matrixes for three different optical retarders. A straightforward method for phase unwrapping, or reconstructing the original phase from the measured retardance, is proposed that yields high-accuracy results. This work can be used in an undergraduate optics lab to help students understand the concepts of retardance and its control and also how variable retardance devices work.

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Experimental method to characterize the retardance function of optical variable retarders

López-Téllez¹,

Bruce²,

Delgado-Aguillón³

et al. 2015

American Journal of Physics

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Demonstrating optical birefringence—A modification of Schneider’s experiment

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