Physics 302 Optics Final Exam , Spring 2007 Nam 1. Your job is to build a retarder plate using a negative birefringent material (ie, velocity of e-wave greater than velocity of o-wave). After passing through this plate, a plane wave linearly polarized gt +45°with respect to the y-axis will come out as a plane wave linearly polarized at -45° with respect to the y-axis. a) (4 pts) What should the relative retardance (ie, the phase difference), A@ , be for this plate? b)G@pis)__ If you use light of wavelength 589.3 nm with a calcite plate (ng = 1.4864, fig = 1.6584), what is the thickness of the retarder plate? 2. You are in a boat that is 4.5 m long watching a seemingly endless succession of identical crests of water waves passing with a half-second interval between each. If every disturbance takes 1.5 s to sweep straight along the length of your boat, find a)(4pts) the frequency of the waves, b)@ pts) the period of the waves, and ©)@pts) the wavelength of the waves. 3. (Tpts) Yellow light from a sodium lamp (= 589 nm) traverses a tank of glycerin (index of refraction 1.47), which is 20.0 m long, in a time t, . [fit takes a time ty for the light to pass through the same tank when filled with carbon disulfide (index of refraction 1.63), determine the value of t, -t, . 4.(7pts) Using a block of a transparent, unknown material, itis found that a beam of light insidg the material is totally internally reflected at the air-block interface at an angle of 48.0° . What is its index of refraction? 5. You are standing 5 feet from, and looking directly toward a shiny brass ball that is 1 foot in diameter hanging in front of a pawn shop. Describe the image you would see in the ball, that is a)(pts) find the image distance, b)Gpis) find the magnification, ©)Gpts) _tell whether the image is real or virtual, and 4)@pts) tell whether the image is erect or inverted. 6.(7pts) A convex-planar lens of index of refraction 3/2 has a thickness of 1.2 cm and a radius of curvature of 2.5 cm. Determine the system matrix when light is incident on the curved surface. 7.(7 pis) __A filter passes light with a mean wavelength of» = 500 nm. If the emerging wavetrains are roughly 20X, long, what is the frequency bandwidth of the exiting light?8.(Spts) The irradiance of a beam of natural light is 400 W/m™. Itpasses through two consecutive ideal linear polarizers whose transmission axes are 40." apart. How much light emerges from the set of two polarizers? 9.@pts) Light from a ruby laser (\, = 694.3 nm) in air impinges on two parallel slits in an opaque screen._A fringe pattern forms on a distant wall, and we see the fourth bright band 1.0° above the central axis. What is the separation of the slits? 10. (8 pts) __A thin film of ethyl alcohol (n = 1.36) spread on a flat glass plate and illuminated with white light shows a color pattern in reflection. If a region of the film reflects only green light (500 nm) strongly, how thick is it? Assume the light is normal to ‘the surface. 11, Two long slits 0.10 mm wide, separated by 0.20 mm, in an opaque screen are illuminated by light with a wavelength of $00 nm. a)(4pts)__ If the plane of observation is 2.5 m away, will the pattern correspond to Fraunhofer or Fresnel diffraction? b)@pts) How many Young’s fringes will be seen within the central bright band? 12.8 pts) _A diffraction grating containing 2000 lines/cm is illuminated normally by light with a wavelength of 500 nm. At what angle will the third-order maximum appear?Physes 302 Optics ae Einad E. Sol OTe rotate polanzed S Palt by 2a 45°= 90%, You reed a — wrawe phe, 20 2) Ad = oe} ian BY 457... = Gm) () A= ar d-|ne-nel £ @mas) ae = 5389,30m_(2m4 = Pd = ainemel 2 (6584-1. ¥26¥) ~ d= ee eare I) Te oss 7 fo A= VA bet rs FY 5 = Be | Tye Ss “m- 2 Ors ye he t= Ie pen (1.63 -1. 42) jba-2, = $(- m= ee lto-t, =_ IL AID. nal Hb eg ores alii teatte ee= Bed 9. Baad | faa ~P, b+ aye pz | 182m eee a peo ae O.24 ] SSisaESSESEEEU EL ( NZ R= 25cm, Ruz, d= l2om so d | ~ Bud nh Ww a 2 5 5 3t! 1 O.20fm R, 256m a 3 p, = +2 215% Jo | a) ~ 02D — 0-0 ny pzem i (0.24%, (22m) i Ye Ze =f eed Bel All == =the spacial oxtent yo AXk= 20>, Ht @# = O-= ke IO | Baa ent 2 © Dey = EM ‘dtm Om = md = Ss —areee amy ee Sep cercee dn 1,0 5 159 x10 nm a oi 500 nm. [a> ebxio Uy Oo 2? c4. om The Un Pruncepee: i Ak Axx | depending on a width | dwt 2 ans a Bur . SS ies Ba Aws array > Avs #2. i: & Blso Ax= cAt i Se nw 20 5 2o | PAT” SRF Bos Wh 2 Y0.0° a= wae a tom Bin al = 0.154 mma ee There 40 se chen q met pablechon a 38 ee max. rofl chron lass n= nS wat green Light age wre ae le m Ao Soom) d= Ln a8 8 where m= 1,2, Ge) Get remap cal R Pah = Mens = 4 oem che K= 2.5m > b.08m =? Yow 300 nm Tir deuble alt: damB=mra > n= dint ed, 20mm W, » ey a a hes et et .| @ d 4m B= mr dm O = a = ma V whoe N= # sts Leno tt wn Amo = 3 (S00~m) (2000 40 ) = 0.30 > p= 175°