Abstract

A theory of retardation plate flickering is presented. The behavior of rotating plane of polarization spectrophotometers with dichroic samples is formulated. It is shown that polarized beam spectrophotometers modified by the addition of a thick retardation plate will duplicate the results of absorption measurements on dichroic samples obtained with unpolarized light.

© 1945 Optical Society of America

Errata: Uses of Retardation Plates in SpectrophotometryIII. Measurement of Dichroic Samples

George L. Buc and E. I. Stearns
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 35(11) 742-742 (1945)

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Uses of Retardation Plates in SpectrophotometryII. Calibration of Wave-Length

George L. Buc and E. I. Stearns
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 35(7) 465-470 (1945)

Focal Plane Anomalies in Roof Prisms*

A. I. Mahan
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A Method for the Measurement of the Energy Distribution in Optical Images*

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