Polarized light and ellipsometry
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | A quick guide to ellipsometry: Light waves and photons, Polarization of light, Ellipsometric configurations, Null ellipsometry, Photometric ellipsometry and polarimetry. Maxwell and wave equations: Linear local response, Linear nonlocal response, Dipole moment, susceptibility and inductions, Relationships between optical constants, Wave equation for monochromatic fields, Plane waves in isotropic medium. Representations of Polarization: Representation by ellipsometric angles, Special cases - linear and circular polarization, Orthogonal polarization states, Representation by complex numbers, Light intensity, detection of polarization state. Propagation of polarized light: Jones vectors, Jones matrices, Quantum mechanical description, partial polarization, Stokes vectors, Mueller matrices. Reflection and transmission of polarized light at planar interfaces: Matching plane waves at a planar interface, Fresnel coeffcients, Special values of the angle of incidence, Ratio of amplitude reflectivities. |
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