Circular polarization of vacuum ultraviolet light by piezobirefringence

Harold Metcalf; James C. Baird

doi:10.1364/AO.5.001407

Circular polarization of vacuum ultraviolet light by piezobirefringence

Harold Metcalf
, James C. Baird

Physics and Astronomy

Brown University

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An instrument has been constructed that can produce any degree of elliptical polarization from linear to circular in the vacuum uv range 1050 Å to 1450 Å using a piezobirefringent retarder of LiF. The apparatus is conveniently described by the Mueller matrices. One of the piezobirefringence constants, P₁₁ - P₁₂, ranged from 4.0-10.0 × 10^-13 cm² /dyn for various samples of LiF, and the index of refraction at 1216 Å was 1.79 ± 0.14.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1407-1410
Number of pages	4
Journal	Applied Optics
Volume	5
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.5.001407
State	Published - Sep 1966

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