| Issue |
Photoniques
Mars-Avril 2019
European Way of Photonics
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 44 - 45 | |
| Section | FOCUS: PHOTONIC TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/photon/2019S444 | |
| Published online | 01 May 2019 | |
The Fresnel triprism and the circular polarization of light
1
Departament de Física Aplicada, IN2UB, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
2
LPICM, CNRS, École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
* e-mail : oarteaga@ub.edu
In 1822 Augustin Fresnel discovered the circular polarization of light with an experiment in which a plane polarized beam was resolved into its left- and right- circularly polarized components after refraction at slightly different angles at the interface between two different species of quartz that formed a composite prism, called the Fresnel triprism. Fresnel’s landmark experiment, once popular, remains today a very little known method for producing circularly polarized light.
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