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Optics Problem Solving

This document provides 7 homework problems related to optics: 1) Calculating minimum deviation angles for light passing through water droplets. 2) Finding the angles of light cones reflected from water droplets for red and violet light. 3) Solving problems related to image formation by flat surfaces and internal reflection. 4) Describing circular polarization and determining the polarization state of light reflected from an interface. The document recommends additional practice problems from Hecht's Optics textbook and Zhao's Introduction to Optics textbook.

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Optics Problem Solving

This document provides 7 homework problems related to optics: 1) Calculating minimum deviation angles for light passing through water droplets. 2) Finding the angles of light cones reflected from water droplets for red and violet light. 3) Solving problems related to image formation by flat surfaces and internal reflection. 4) Describing circular polarization and determining the polarization state of light reflected from an interface. The document recommends additional practice problems from Hecht's Optics textbook and Zhao's Introduction to Optics textbook.

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Homework for G.P III, Set #2 1. 2. 3. 4. Hechts book4th edition-electronic version, problem 3.46 Hechts book, problem4.5.

Hechts book, problem 4.25. This problem is related to the formation of rainbow, see the figure:

The incoming light is a plane wave (say the light coming from the sun, it acts like a plane wave for the droplet of water), it shines on a spherical shaped water droplet. The reflected light from the inner surface of the droplet would generally have a different direction of propagation. The angle difference between the directions of the output and incoming light is called deviation angle . Please show that 1) For a certain incident angle , there is a minimum value of the deviation angle (first find the geometric relations between , and other angles, then find the from minimizing , you need Snells law) 2) The refractive index of water for red and violet light are: n(700nm)=1.331, n(400nm)=1.343, what are the minimum deviation angles for these two light? 3) For the broad illumination like the sun, the reflected light form the droplet would be limited inside a cone, find the angles of this light-cone for the red and violet light. 5. Hechts book, problem 4.40. Add one question, what is the angle between the electric field of the incident and reflected light? 6. A point source (the light from it is a spherical wave) is placed in air (n0), and it is at distance of r0 from a flat surface that separate air and a media with refractive index of n1 : (1) Prove for the light that forms very small angles with the normal direction of the surface, the refracted light after the surface will also be a spherical wave, but its origin (the spherical center) is shifted. (2) Find the origin of the refracted light. (If you work out this correct, you just proved image formation by flat surface under paraxial condition) 7. (No points if no derivation)Prove that for the internal reflection (ni > nt), at the incident angle ii larger or equal to the critical angle, the reflection coefficient r, for the S and P components are complex numbers in forms of ApExp (-ip), AsExp (-is), with amplitude A=1, and the phase is given by equation 10.27 in Zhaos book, pg 254.

p 2 tan 1
1

ni nt

(ni / nt ) 2 sin 2 ii 1 cos ii (ni / nt ) 2 sin 2 ii 1 cos ii

n s 2 tan t ni

8. A circular polarized light is defined in Zhaos book, pg242 and Hechts 8.1.2. Basically it can decompose into two orthogonal components, the two orthogonal components can be the Vertical and Horizontal ones, or the oscillation along the y, x direction as in Zhaos book, where x y z , x , y, z are unit vectors along the positive direction of the Cartesian coordinate system, z is the direction of light propagation. (Another way to put it, is that the circular polarization is a superposition of two perpendicular harmonic oscillation with equal amplitude but /2 phase difference) When looking into (facing) the direction of the propagation of light, if the phase difference between the Vertical and Horizontal components is -/2, i.e. if the Vertical is leading in phase by /2, it is a right-circular polarized light; if the Vertical is lagging in phase by /2, (phase difference is /2) it is a left-circular polarized light. Now the question is: if the incident light is a right-circular polarized light, at normal incidence angle (ii=0) at an interface between (ni, nt), what is the polarization state of the reflected light? Does it matter whether it is internal or external reflection? ( As to the respective coordinate systems for the incident and reflected light, you can define the S component corresponds to the Vertical, the P component corresponds to the Horizontal, the coordinate system is specified in the class as well as in Zhaos book, Figure 10-1) Give out your reasoning (80% of the points), not just the answer. Other recommended practice: Hechts 4.3, 4.20,4.22, 4.33,4.44, 4.50, 4.56, 4.65 Zhaos book: Question 5,6, Pg 22; problems 3,5,6,12, 14, 16, Pg 23-25; Question7 (Pg 263); Problem 5, 9 (pg 264-265)

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