Technology for Polarization Measurement

The following is a brief listing of papers written by our end users between 1986-1990.  If you would like to have your paper included in our library, please contact Hinds Instruments.

A new model of a photoelastic modulator with distributed birefringence, J. Badoz, M. P. Silverman, J. C. Canit, F. Delplancke, and A. Boccara, Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., vol. 1166 (1990)

Picosecond circular dichroism spectroscopy: a Jones matrix analysis, Xiaoliang Xie and John D. Simon, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, vol. 7 (8) (1990) (1673-1684)

Wave propagation through a medium with static and dynamic birefringence theory of the photoelastic modulator, J. Bodaz, M. P. Silverman, and J. C. Canit, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, vol. 7 (4) (1990) (672-682)

Far-infrared nondestructive testing of sheet material, Richard Gagnon, Bernard Drouin, Pierre Bernard, and Michel Bergeron, TAPPI Journal, vol. 73 (9) (1990)

Two-dimensional IR spectroscopy may simplify complex spectra, Stephen Stinson, Chem. Eng. News, vol. 68 (1) (1990) (21-24)

Error analysis for anisotropic compensator defects for null ellipsometry, Soe-Mie F. Nee, SPIE Proceedings, vol. 1166 (1990) (242-253)

Motional Stark effect polarimetry for a current profile diagnostic in DIII-D, D. Wroblewski, K. H. Burrell, L. L. Lao, P. Politzer, et.al., Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 61 (11) (1990)

Properties of tunable nematic liquid crystal retarders, S. E. Gilman, T. G. Baur, D. J. Gallagher, and N. K. Shankar, SPIE Proceedings, vol. 1166 (1990) (461-471)

Achromatic long wavelength polarization modulator, Prasad L. Polavarapu, SPIE Proceedings, vol. 1166 (1990) (472-477)

Second harmonic detection of sinusoidally modulated two-photon excited fluorescence, R. Griffith Freeman, Donald L. Gilliland, and Fred E. Lytle, Anal. Chem., vol. 62 (20) (1990) (2216-2219)

DNA solution conformation via infrared circular dichroism: experimental and theoretical results for B-family polymers, W. Zhong, M. Gulotta, D. J. Goss, and M. Diem, Biochemistry, vol. 29 (32) (1990) (7485-7491)

Photochemistry with circularly polarized light: A new method, H. Rubalcava and D. J. Fitzmaurice, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 92 (10) (1990)

Tunable-diode-laser infared reflection absorption spectroscopy of carbon monoxide on Pt(111), L. F. Sutcu, J. L. Wragg, and H. W. White, Phys. Rev. B, vol. 41 (12) (1990) (8164-8169)

Magnetic field pitch angle diagnostic using the motional Stark effect (invited), F. M. Levinton, G. M. Gammel, R. Kaita, H. W. Kugel, et.al., Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 61 (10) (1990)

Improvements of phase-modulated ellipsometry, O. Archer, E. Bigan, and B. Drevillon, Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 60 (1) (1989)

Picosecond time-resolved circular dichroism spectroscopy: experimental details and applications, Xiaoliang Xie and John D. Simon, Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 60 (8) (1989)

Measurement of the electro-optic coefficient for gallium arsenide and cadmium telluride modulator rods, G. L. Herrit and H. E. Reedy, MRS Proceedings, vol. 152 (1989)

IR vibrational CD in model deoxyoligonucleotides: Observation of the B → Z phase transition and extended coupled oscillator intensity calculations, M. Gulotta, D. J. Goss, and M. Diem, Biopolymers, vol. 28 (12) (1989) (2047-2058)

Relaxation of Stress and Birefringence in Polymers of High Molecular Weight, R. G. Larson, S. A. Khan, and V. R. Raju, J. Rheol., vol. 32 (2) (1988)

Determination of the poloidal magnetic field profiles in a tokamak by polarization spectroscopy of an impurity ion line, D. Wroblewski, L .K. Huang, H. W. Moos, and P. E. Phillips, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 61 (15) (1988) (1724-1727)

Scanning polarimeter for measurement of the poloidal magnetic field in a tokamak, D. Wroblewski, L. K. Huang, and H. W. Moos, Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 59 (11) (1988)

Detecting polarized light at levels below 1 ppm, SPIE Conference, Los Angeles, January 1988

Solar magnetic field studies using the 12-micron emission lines I. Quiet sun time series and sunspot slices, Drake Deming, Robert J. Boyle, Donald E. Jennings, and Gunter Wiedemann, Astrophys. J., Part 1, vol. 333 (1988) (978-995)

Reflectance-difference spectroscopy system for real-time measurements of crystal growth, D. E. Aspnes, J. P. Harbison, A. A. Studna, and L. T. Florez, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 52 (12) (1988)

Optical studies of molecular-beam epitaxy growth of GaAs and AlAs, D. E. Aspnes, J. P. Harbison, A. A. Studna, L. T. Florez, et.al., J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, vol. 6 (4) (1988)

Oscillations in the optical response of (001) GaAs and AlGaAs by molecular-beam epitaxy, J. P. Harbison, D. E. Aspnes, A. A. Studna, L. T. Florez, et.al., Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 52 (24) (1988)

Construction, calibration and testing of a four-detector polarimeter, R. M. A. Azzam, E. Masetti, I. M. Elminyawi, and F. G. Grosz, Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 59 (1) (1988)

Transmission x-ray diffraction grating alignment using a photoelastic modulator, E. H. Anderson, A. M. Levine, and M. L. Schattenburg, Appl. Opt., vol. 27 (16) (1988) (3522-3525)

Acetic acid adsorbed on copper oxide studied by double modulation Fourier transform infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy, Y. Sakata, K. Domen, K. Maruya, and T. Onishi, Appl. Spectrosc., vol. 42 (3) (1988) (442-444)

Photoelastic modulator for the mid-IR range down to 33 um with inexpensive and simple electronic controls, Gunter Georg Hoffmann, Bernhard Schrader, and Guenther Stnatzke, Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 58 (9) (1987)

Synoptic high-sensitivity polarimetry of very bright stars, J. C. Kemp, G. D. Henson, D. J. Kraus, and M. H. Dunaway, Bulletin American Astronomical Society, vol. 19 (1987)

Optical reflectance and Rheed transients during MBE growth on (001) GaAs, D. E. Aspnes, J. P. Harbison, A. A. Studna, and L. T. Florez, MRS Proceedings, vol. 91 (57) (1987)

Circular dichroism detection of optically active compounds in gas chromatography using vacuum ultraviolet synchrotron radiation, M. A. Wickramaarratchi, E. T. Premuzic, M. Lin, and P. A. Snyder, J. Chromatogr. A, vol. 390 (2) (1987) (413-420)

Alignment of CN from 248 nm photolysis of ICN: A new model of the à continuum dissociation dynamics, Maureen A. O’Halloran, Hellmut Joswig, and Richard N. Zare, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 87 (1) (1987)

The optical polarization of the Sun measured at a sensitivity of parts in ten million, J. C. Kemp, G. D. Henson, C. T. Steiner, and E. R. Powell, Nature, vol. 326 (1987) 270-273

Magnetic circular dichroism and the Jahn-Teller effect in the ²S-²P transition of sodium and lithium atoms isolated in Xenon matrices, J. Rose, D. Smith, B. E. Williamson, P. N. Schatz, M. C. M. O’Brien, J. Phys. Chem., vol. 90 (12) (1986) (2608-2615)