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Chapter 2: Basic Optics

Chapter 2: Basic Optics. The electromagnetic spectrum. The electromagnetic spectrum. The attenuation of solar radiation by the atmosphere for wavelenghs visible to the naked human eye. The attenuation curve for optical fiber (glass). Note the five optical wavelenght windows.

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Chapter 2: Basic Optics

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  1. Chapter 2: Basic Optics The electromagnetic spectrum The electromagnetic spectrum

  2. The attenuation of solar radiation by the atmosphere for wavelenghs visible to the naked human eye.

  3. The attenuation curve for optical fiber (glass). Note the five optical wavelenght windows.

  4. Geometrical optics Wavefronts are formed at right angles to the rays of light, and the light diminishes in proportion to the square of the distance. Light disperses in straight lines from its source.

  5. Reflection Reflection on a plane surface.

  6. Refraction Refraction of a light ray passing through an optically denser medium.

  7. Refraction through a lens The path, imaging and refraction of light through a biconvex lens.

  8. Total reflection When light travels from an optically denser to an optically less dense medium, and the angle of incidence exceeds a certain critical value, total reflection of the light occurs.

  9. Reflection of light at 90° angle of incidence Fresnel’s laws of reflection Polarized light Light consists of two fields: an electrical and a magnetic field. The two fields are synchronous with field vectors that maintain a 90° phase difference to one another.

  10. Light hitting a surface will be polarized, and the electric and magnetic fields are polarized differently.

  11. Graphs showing the differences in reflectance of the different polarizations.

  12. Total reflection in a fiber The refraction of light entering the fiber, and total reflection within the fiber.

  13. Rayleigh scattering and Tyndall’s light Rayleigh scattering of light due to impurities in the light transmitting.

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