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Chapter 5: Wave Optics
How to explain the effects due to interference, diffraction, and
polarization of light?
How do lasers work?
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Wave Optics
•Effects due to interference, diffraction, and polarization can not be explained by geometric optics.
•Wave nature of light was demonstrated by Young’s double slit experiment (1820).
In phase waves lead to constructive
interference
Out of phase waves lead to destructive
interference
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Two Wave Interference
•What causes two identical waves to become “in-phase” or “out-of-phase”?
Path difference between the two waves!
•Waves are in-phase when
P = 0, , 2, 3, …, n
•Waves are out-of-phase when
P = /2, 3/2, 5/2, …, (n+1/2)
http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/ugrad/vpl/waves/superposition2.html
Path difference P = (r2 – r1)
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Example: Two Wave Interference
Path difference = 1 wavelength
Path difference = 1/2 wavelength
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Two Wave Interference (Contd.)
Condition for constructive interference:
L
y
d
n
n = 0, 1, 2, …
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Two Wave Interference Pattern
n=0
Intensity
n=2n=1
y
www.Colorado.EDU/physics/2000/schroedinger/two-slit2.html
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Thin Film Interference (Soap Bubbles)
The phase difference of rays reflected from the top and bottom surfaces depends on the thickness and refractive index of the film, the angle at which the light strikes the film surface and the wavelength of the light.
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Thin Film Interference (Antireflection coating)
The substrate (glass, quartz, etc.) is coated with a thin layer of material so that reflections from the outer surface of the film and the outer surface of the substrate cancel each other by destructive interference.
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Multiple Wave Interference – Diffraction Grating
•Constructive interference occurs only when all waves are in-phase.
•Path difference between any two successive waves must be n.
•Condition for interference maxima is,
•Interference pattern has
sharp peaks.
nSind
2 slits 16 slits8 slits
http://www.microscopy.fsu.edu/primer/java/imageformation/gratingdiffraction/index.html
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Diffraction Grating (Contd.)
•Gratings have hundreds of slits per cm.
•Applications in spectroscopy, crystallography etc.
Diffraction pattern from a crystalline solid
Diffraction of light from a CD
Iridescence: A diffraction phenomenon
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Review Problem
A grating has 5000 lines/cm. A second order maximum is observed at 300. What is the wavelength of light?
500 nm
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LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Light
•Stimulated emission process was predicted by Einstein in 1916. First laser developed in 1959.
•“Photons” and atoms can interact via the following processes.
Absorption: Atom can absorb a photon and become excited.
Spontaneous emission: Atom in excited state will spontaneously emit a photon and occupy a lower energy state.
Stimulated emission: Atom in excited state is stimulated by a photon to emit another photon and occupy a lower energy state. Emitted photon has the same wavelength, phase, and direction as the stimulating photon.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/lasers/lasers2.html
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Stimulated Emission
•Stimulated emission is more likely under “population inversion”.
•Pumping: Process by which energy is supplied to excite more atoms to achieve population inversion.
Atoms can be pumped by photon absorption, collisions, electric current…etc.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/lasers/lasers3.html
PUMP
Normal condition: Thermal equilibrium
Population inversion achieved by “pumping”
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Laser Operation in a 3 Level System
http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/%7Eteb/optics/java/laser/index.html
Excited
Reservoir
Ground
Excited
Reservoir
Ground
1. Pumping: Excites atoms to highest level.
2. Fast radiative decay to reservoir creates population inversion between reservoir and ground states.
Excited
Reservoir
Ground
3. Seed photon stimulates emission and light is amplified! Laser light
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Light Amplification
•Light is amplified in a “resonant cavity” between two mirrors.
•Photons from stimulated emission bounce between mirrors knocking out more photons. Light is “amplified”!
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/lasers/lasers4.html
Active MediumLaser Light
90% Reflecting Mirror
100% Reflecting Mirror
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Properties of Laser Light
•High Power Density: At the focus, lasers can be thousands of times more intense than the sun!
•Sunlight ~ 1300 W/m2
•Laser ~ 106 W/m2
•High Spectral purity: Light is emitted in a narrow band of wavelengths. This is due to the atomic processes in the “active medium”.
•Small beam divergence: All photons travel in the same direction. Typical beam divergence ~ 2 x 10-5 degrees/m.
•Coherence: All the emitted photons
bear a constant phase relationship
with each other in both time and space.
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Types of Lasers
•Solid state lasers, gas lasers, dye Lasers, semiconductor (diode) lasers.
Laser Type Wavelength (nm)
Free Electron UV, X-ray??
Excimer: Argon fluoride 193
Nitrogen 337
Argon Ion (blue) 488
Argon Ion (green) 514
Helium Neon 633
Rhodamine 6G Dye (tunable) 570 - 650
Ruby (CrAlO3) 694
Nd:YAG 1064
Carbon Dioxide 10600
http://www.microscopy.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/java.html
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Holography (3D Imaging)
Conventional Photography Holography
Relative intensities are recorded on film
Interference pattern is recorded on film
“Phase” information about waves is lost
“Phase” information is retained in the interference
pattern
Film3D Object
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Holography (2 Step Process)
RecordingReconstruction
Interference pattern is recorded on film.Need high resolution (slow) film, long
exposure and vibration free set up.
Interference pattern acts as a diffraction grating so different orders of maxima and minima
reconstruct the image.
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Polarization
•Light is a “transverse” electromagnetic wave.
•Polarization is the orientation of the electric field.
Note:•Natural light is “randomly” polarized.•Eye cannot distinguish different polarizations.
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Production of Polarized Light
•Selective Absorption:
•Note: Optically “active” materials can change the polarization direction. Example: Sugar solution, DNA, liquid crystals…etc.
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Production of Polarized Light (Contd.)
•Reflection:
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/polarized.html
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Production of Polarized Light
•Scattering:
Light scattered in a perpendicular direction
is partially polarized!
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Polarized Light: Some Applications
•Mineral characterization.
•Stress / strain fields (visual inspection of windshields).
•Polarization microscopy.
•Sunglasses / camera filters.
•LCD displays.
•Polarized art?
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/virtual/polarizing/index.html
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl