wave nature of light
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Wave Nature of Light. Diffraction. Diffraction is the bending of a wave around a barrier or through an opening into the shadow region. Diffraction. The amount of diffraction depends on the size of the barrier or opening compared to the wavelength of the wave. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Wave Natureof
Light
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Diffraction• Diffraction is the bending of a wave
around a barrier or through an opening into the shadow region.
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Diffraction• The amount of diffraction
depends on the size of the barrier or opening compared to the wavelength of the wave.
• Longer wavelengths exhibit more diffraction.– Owl hoots around trees– Water waves around small
boats– Light waves diffract for very
small openings – on the order of 1 wavelength
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Huygens’ Principle• According to Huygens’
principle, each of the two slits in Young’s experiment acts as a point source of light waves.
Christiaan Huygens
(1629-1695)
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Ripple Tank Waves
• The crests of water waves act as converging lenses for the light shining from above.
• On the screen, the crests are bright, and the troughs are dark.
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Ripple Tank Waves
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Diffraction Slit Width Variation
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Diffraction Pattern - Fingers
• Make a narrow opening between two fingers and look through the opening at a light. You will see thin fringes resembling hairs. These are nodes or dark fringes.
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Diffraction – Slit Width
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Poisson’s Spot Explained
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Interference• When two waves interfere, the resulting displacement
of the medium at any location is the algebraic sum of the displacements of the individual waves at that same location. This is called the principle of superposition.
Constructive Interference
Antinode
Destructive Interference
Node
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Double Source Nodal Lines
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Ripple Tank Waves
The diffraction due to the two narrow openings results in a pattern of nodal and antinodal lines similar to that of a double source interference pattern.
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Inserting a Screen
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Double Source Interference• When 2 periodic circular
patterns interfere, a pattern of constructive and destructive interference emerges.
• “Lines” connecting nodes are called nodal lines
• “Lines” connecting antinodes are called antinodal lines
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Thomas Young
• Scientist• Physician• Renaissance Man • Interference• Elastic Behavior of Solids• Kinetic Energy• Work and Energy
Connection1773 - 1829
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Double Slit Interference
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Light Interference
Interference is most noticeable when light is:
• Monochromatic -- This means light with a specific wavelength.
• Coherent. This means the phase difference between the light waves remains constant over time.
Laser light is monochromatic and coherent.
Light from incandescent lamps is incoherent.
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Coherent & Incoherent Light
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Incoherent Light
• Atoms emit radiation. For example the "excited" neon atoms in a neon sign emit light. Normally, atoms radiate their light in random directions at random times. The result is incoherent light.
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Young’s Double Slit Applets
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Young’s Double Slit Layout
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Wavelength Comparisons
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Reflections at Boundaries
Free End ReflectionNo phase change
Slow Mediumto
Fast Medium
Fast Mediumto
Slow Medium
Fixed End Reflection180o phase change
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Thin Film Interference
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Thin Film Interference• Phase change of ray 1
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• Phase change of ray 22 2effl t
• In terms of wavelength in vacuum
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nl tn
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Thin Film Interference• difference in phase shifts of
the two rays.2 1
2vacuum
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• Destructive Interference
• Constructive Interference
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Air Wedge Interference
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Newton’s Rings
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Air Wedge Interference
Destructive Interference
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2t mConstructive Interference
Fringe Spacing 2
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Iridescence
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Iridescence
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Soap Film Interference• This soap film varies in
thickness and produces a rainbow of colors.
• The top part is so thin it looks black.
• All colors destructively interfere there.
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Sample 6
• A soap bubble is illuminated by a combination of red light (λ = 692 nm) and blue light (λ = 519 nm).
• What minimum thickness of the soap bubble film will result in blue light being not reflected?
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1 519nm195nm
2 1.33t
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Polarization of LightUnpolarized
Polarized
Electric fields of unpolarized light vibrate in all directions perpendicular to the direction the light travels.
A polarizing filter can constrain light to vibrate in only one direction
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Polarizing Filters
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Polarization
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Polarization
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Reflected Horizontally Polarized
•Polarization of Reflected Light
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Polarizing Glasses
Which pair of glasses is best suited for automobile drivers? (The polarization axes are shown by the straight lines.)
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Two Polarizers
Perpendicular AxesParallel Axes
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Insert Third Polarizer
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LASER
• Light
• Amplification by
• Stimulated
• Emission of
• Radiation
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Stimulated Emission• If a photon whose frequency corresponds to the
energy difference between the excited and ground states strikes an excited atom, the atom is stimulated as it falls back to a lower energy state to emit a second photon of the same (or a proportional) frequency, in phase with and in the same direction as the bombarding photon.
• This process is called stimulated emission. The bombarding photon and the emitted photon may then each strike other excited atoms, stimulating further emission of photons, all of the same frequency and phase. This process produces a sudden burst of coherent radiation as all the atoms discharge in a rapid chain reaction.
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Laser
• A laser is a device that creates and amplifies a narrow, intense beam of coherent light.
•In a ruby laser, light from the flash lamp, in what is called "optical pumping", excites the molecules in the ruby rod, and they bounce back and forth between two mirrors until coherent light escapes from the cavity.
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Interference in CDs
• Laser shines light onto track of CD
• Discs have “pits” in the surface
• Sensor reads signal from laser
• CD Burners
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Constructive Interference
• When entire beam reflects from the “pit” or when entire beam reflects from the “land” – constructive interference results – “on”
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Destructive Interference
• “Pits” are ¼ above the “land”• When part of beam reflects from “pit” and part from
“land”• Destructive interference – interpreted as “off”
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Laser Scans Disc
• Intensity of the reflected light varies as the disc rotates.
• Intensity is measured and interpreted as a series of ones and zeros (digital information).
• Information is then relayed to other systems that interpret it.
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Holography
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Viewing a Hologram