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Geometric Optics and Prism Refraction

- The document discusses principles of reflection and refraction including Snell's law, total internal reflection, and the critical angle. It describes how these principles apply to plane surfaces, prisms, and their uses including minimum deviation and measuring the index of refraction. - Thin prisms are analyzed and the combination of two thin prisms is examined. Ray tracing methods are overviewed including direct vision and back to back prisms. - Charles K. Kao received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking work transmitting light in optical fibers for communications, enabling broadband networks. Willard Boyle and George Smith also received the prize for inventing the CCD image sensor.

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Geometric Optics and Prism Refraction

- The document discusses principles of reflection and refraction including Snell's law, total internal reflection, and the critical angle. It describes how these principles apply to plane surfaces, prisms, and their uses including minimum deviation and measuring the index of refraction. - Thin prisms are analyzed and the combination of two thin prisms is examined. Ray tracing methods are overviewed including direct vision and back to back prisms. - Charles K. Kao received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking work transmitting light in optical fibers for communications, enabling broadband networks. Willard Boyle and George Smith also received the prize for inventing the CCD image sensor.

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What we learned in chapter 1

Speed of light is finite. Fixed in vac and slower in media Laws of reflection and refraction (Snells law) Fermats Principle (looking at the same problem backwards). Similar to the relationship between Newtonian mechanics and Lagrangian mechanics Chromatic dispersion and the separation of colors

Plane Surfaces and Prisms


1. Parallel beam
Reflected beam has the same cross section as the incident beam External reflection

Internal reflection Refracted cross section given by the ratio

Total Internal Reflection

cos '/ cos

Critical angle
sin n ' = sin ' n For n<n If sin =1, there is a max that is called the critical angle c n sin c = Incident from air n' For crown glass n=1.52 c=41.14 For water n=1.333 c=48.60 For Diamond n=2.42 c=24.41

Total internal reflection


Apply the principle of reversibility The critical angle is the smallest angle in incidence in the higher indexed medium for which light is totally reflected. When TIR occurs, no energy goes into the lower indexed medium

Prism Applications

Read the moon reflector

Prism materials
Most prisms are used at 45 degree angle so we need Materials can be used would need n>1.414 Most materials can be used.

n' sin 45 n

Measuring the index of refraction the Pulfrich refractometer


n>n

Plane-parallel Plate only shifts a ray


d = l s i n ( ')
t d= (sin cos ' sin 'cos ) cos '

n cos d = t (sin sin ) n' cos '


The displacement is given by

n sin ' = sin n'

n cos d = t sin (1 ) n ' cos '

Approximation
n cos ) d = t sin (1 n ' cos '
d
Off by about 3% for 30 degrees

Refraction by a prism
In a parallel plate, the deviations of the two surfaces are annulled In a prism, they are made to enhance each other Snells Law of refraction
sin 1 n ' sin 2 = = sin 1 ' n sin 2 '
O

= 1 1 '

= 2 2 '

= + = 1 1 '+ 2 2 ' = 1 + 2
comes in by considering the ANBO quadragon

Minimum deviation
Minimum happens at

1 = 2 1 ' = 2 ' =

Rotation around A

Principle of reversibility argues for this equality

Minimum deviation -II


m = + = 2 = 1 '+ 2 ' = 21 ' 1 = 1 '+
Solve these together

1 ' = (1/ 2) 1 = (1/ 2)( + m )


Apply Snell's law n ' sin[(1/ 2)( + m )] = n sin(1/ 2)
Another way of measuring n. Most prisms are used near this angle to cause less astigmatism from the divergence or convergence of incident beam

Thin prisms
If is small n ' sin[(1/ 2)( + m )] + m = = sin(1/ 2) n = (n ' 1)
m label is dropped since they are almost always used at min dev. in air The prism Diopter, 1cm deviation at 1 m away, or =0.01 rad=0.0573

1-D dense flint prism, n=1.067050

= / (n ' 1) = 0.85459

Combination of 2 thin prisms


Risley or Herschel prism Two of equal power Power addition by vector addition
If is the angle between the two prisms

= 12 + 22 + 21 2 cos
Compared to only one prism 2 sin tan = 1 + 2 cos If 1 = 2

= 2 i2 (1 + cos ) = 4 i2 cos 2 ( / 2) = 2 i cos ( / 2)


tan = tan( / 2)

= /2

Graphical method of ray tracing

ROQ=

RPQ=

Direct vision prism


n and n chosen for the D line to have =0 Ray tracing done for all colors

Back to back

Reflection of divergent rays

s = s'
Object distance = image distance

Virtual image

Refraction of divergent rays

Paraxial ray image


Angles are small cosine=1 and sine equals angle

h = s tan = s ' tan ' tan sin cos ' n 'cos ' s' = s =s =s tan ' cos sin ' n cos since s' n' = = s ' n We have s' n' = s n

Fiber Optics

Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009


one half to Charles Kuen Kao
Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong

Godfather of Broadband, "Father of Fiber Optics or "Father of Fiber Optic Communications "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication

other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith


Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

"for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit the CCD sensor"

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