waves, light & quanta
DESCRIPTION
Waves, Light & Quanta. Tim Freegarde. Web Gallery of Art; National Gallery, London. . Young’s double slit diffraction. x. amplitude. intensity. . amplitude. Single slit diffraction. x. intensity. Diffraction grating. x. place secondary sources along wavefront. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Diffraction grating
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• place secondary sources along wavefront• ...and trigger when wavefront arrives• apply to sinusoidal waves by taking into
account the phase with which components arrive• combine by adding the amplitudes
• contributions may therefore interfere constructively or destructively
INTERFERENCE
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Michelson interferometer
• interference by division of amplitude
beamsplitter detector
source
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Michelson interferometer
• interference by division of amplitude
beamsplitter detector
source
δx δx
• sodium doublet
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• FTIR: Fourier transform infrared
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Newton’s rings
diffuser
beam-splitter
lens
plate
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• apply to sinusoidal waves by taking into account the phase with which components arrive• combine by adding the amplitudes
• contributions may therefore interfere constructively or destructively
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CoherenceNON-POINT OBJECTS
• many independent emitters, e.g. different atoms in star• spatial extent (angular width) determines fringe visibility• partial visibility when phase difference partially defined• coherence is a measure of extent to which the phase difference is known
• degree of coherence 2
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• (approximate expression – requires complex numbers)
• complex degree of coherence
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Light and opticsRAYS
• straight propagation paths• least time (Fermat’s principle)• reflection, refraction, lenses, telescopes,
microscopesWAVES
• Huygens’ description of propagation, reflection, refraction• polarization, colour (wavelength, frequency)
• diffraction, interference, beats, interferometers
directrix
focus
PHOTONS• Planck, Compton, Einstein
• Maxwell’s electromagnetism, Einstein’s relativity