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Half Wave Plate Program
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Kiril Simov and Wolfgang Christian
The Half Wave Plate program displays the effect of a half wave plate on an incident electromagnetic wave. The default electromagnetic wave is plane polarized but this polarization can be changed by specifying the components of the wave's Jones vector using the input fields. The slider can be used to rotate the half wave plate to change its orientation.
Half Wave Plate is an Open Source Physics program written for the teaching of optics. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the optics_halfwave.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. Other optics programs are also available. They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or Optics. Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java.
quick question about the half wave plate
Author: Jose Muñeton Is the axis of the half wave plate, which is shown in the programme, its slow or fast axis? Thank you, very useful tool
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=7177">Simov, Kiril, and Wolfgang Christian. "Half Wave Plate Program." Version 1.0.</a>
AIP Format
K. Simov and W. Christian, Computer Program HALF WAVE PLATE PROGRAM, Version 1.0 (2008), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7177&DocID=361).
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K. Simov and W. Christian, Computer Program HALF WAVE PLATE PROGRAM, Version 1.0 (2008), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7177&DocID=361>.
APA Format
Simov, K., & Christian, W. (2008). Half Wave Plate Program (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved May 2, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7177&DocID=361
Chicago Format
Simov, Kiril, and Wolfgang Christian. "Half Wave Plate Program." Version 1.0. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7177&DocID=361 (accessed 2 May 2025).
MLA Format
Simov, Kiril, and Wolfgang Christian. Half Wave Plate Program. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2008. Java 1.5. 2 May 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7177&DocID=361>.
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@misc{
Author = "Kiril Simov and Wolfgang Christian",
Title = {Half Wave Plate Program},
Month = {May},
Year = {2008}
}
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%A Kiril Simov %A Wolfgang Christian %T Half Wave Plate Program %D May 1, 2008 %U https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7177&DocID=361 %O 1.0 %O application/java
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%0 Computer Program %A Simov, Kiril %A Christian, Wolfgang %D May 1, 2008 %T Half Wave Plate Program %7 1.0 %8 May 1, 2008 %U https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7177&DocID=361 Disclaimer: ComPADRE offers citation styles as a guide only. We cannot offer interpretations about citations as this is an automated procedure. Please refer to the style manuals in the Citation Source Information area for clarifications.
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