A New Method of Identifying Polarized Light Reflected from Small Opaque Crystals.

Authors

LeRoy D. Weld, State University of IowaFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

The method is a modification of one used originally by Voigt for the identification of elliptically polarized light. The light under examination passes first through an arrangement of quartz wedges acting as a Babinet compensator, then through a "rotator" consisting of another pair of quartz wedges cut perpendicular to the axis, one from right-handed, the other from left-handed quartz; and finally through a large Nicol prism. The result is that the field is filled with rows of black spots in regular arrangement; and from the location of these spots with reference to the cross-hairs, as photographed, the exact character of the elliptic vibration can be readily calculated.

Publication Date

1916

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

23

Issue

1

First Page

235

Last Page

236

Copyright

©1916 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Weld, LeRoy D. (1916) "A New Method of Identifying Polarized Light Reflected from Small Opaque Crystals.," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 23(1), 235-236.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol23/iss1/38