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Where does energy go?
Where does energy go?
Given is the Michelson interferometer. One sends light in
in the form of a plane wave $E_0\exp[i(kx-wt)]$ into the interferometer.
The position of one of the mirrors is adjusted ...
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Orienting birefringent crystal the right way in an interferometer
I'm working in a lab that involves transforming the polarization state of one beam of light in an interferometer via a Barium Borate (BBO) birefringent crystal. As the polarization state is altered ...
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Mach-Zehnder interferometer classical field [closed]
I knew that
$$I \propto |E|^2$$
I wanted to calculate intensity on detector 1 and detector 2 in Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
One path have electric field $E_{1}$ and the second $E_{2}$. Its splits in ...
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Regarding Michelson's interferometer
In Michelson's Interferometer (1881 experiment), even though the arm length for both the perpendicular arms was taken as the same (say $L$) and a compensatory plate was used to removed optical path ...
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Path difference between rays in Michelson interferometer with inclined mirrors
If mirrors of Michelson interferometer are inclined the resulting configuration is the one in picture (tha analogy is with the thin wedge) where ray appear to come from $O$. If the distance between ...
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