Consecutive polarizers arrangement producing maximum polarized light intensity

Johannes V. D. Wirjawan

doi:10.1063/1.4943751

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Consecutive polarizers arrangement producing maximum polarized light intensity

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Johannes V. D. Wirjawan

2016 AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1719 Conference paper Cited by 0 SDG 7

Abstract

Polarizer mainly functions as a specific filter that blocks or transmits lights of certain polarization. Malus' law predicts the average intensity of polarized light passing a polarizer that transmits certain polarization direction will be proportional to the squared cosine of angle between the two polarization directions. Arranging several polarizers consecutively with various transmission directions will produce various final intensity as well as final polarized direction. Specific arrangement of an arbitrary number (N > 3) of polarizers producing maximum intensity of polarized light will be discussed in this paper. In addition, interesting pattern of maximum values of some trigonometric functions that are difficult to be solved analytically can be obtained from this discussion. © 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.

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Department of Physics Education, Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya, Jalan Kalijudan 37, Surabaya, 60114, Indonesia

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