Sage, Jolyon, T. (2026) Setup and calibration of an experiment to detect circularly polarized light. Bachelor's Thesis, Applied Physics.
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Abstract
This paper focuses on optimizing the calibration of a CPL spectroscopy system to create and detect -right and -left hand circularly polarized light.It aims to quantify the deviation from a Jones calculus model of polarization to that observed with real world polarizers.For a system using linear polarizers and quarter wave-plates to determine the handiness of polarized emission, misalignment and systematic errors can cause artificially enlarged glum factors which cause the underlying physics to remain unresolved.The focus is on using rhodamine 6G as a baseline on which to quantify the artificial shift and determine if the setup can be optimized to a level where it could be used to resolve the chirality of architectures.This would allow for a secondary method to track the assembly of chiral supramolecular nanofibres motivating the need for such a setup.The calibration of the CPL system was done with polarized light having glum of 1.99713±0.00002 and −1.99737±0.00002 followed by imaging of rhodamine 6G in ethanol solution at 22.5µg/L and 1.125µg/L resulting in glum factors of 0.022±0.002 and 0.025±0.009.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis) |
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| Supervisor name: | Hildner, R.M. |
| Degree programme: | Applied Physics |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2026 07:14 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2026 07:14 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/37491 |
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