Quarter Wave Plate Program

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written by Kiril Simov and Wolfgang Christian

The Quarter Wave Plate program displays the effect of a quarter 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. TheA slider can be used to rotate the quarter wave plate.

Quarter Wave Plate is an Open Source Physics program written for the teaching of optics.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java.

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Last Modified: May 18, 2008

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - General Optics - Polarization = Birefringence = Circular Polarization	- Lower Undergraduate - Upper Undergraduate - Graduate/Professional	- Instructional Material = Activity = Interactive Simulation = Lecture/Presentation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2008 Wolfgang Christian
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Keywords:: OSP, Open Source Physics, electromagnetic radiation, light, optics, polarization, quarter wave plate, right-circularly polarized
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created May 18, 2008 by Mario Belloni
Record Updated:: July 10, 2008 by Taha Mzoughi
Last Update when Cataloged:: May 1, 2008
Other Collections:: The Open Source Physics

Very Helpful program

Author: Mingi Wu
Posted: January 14, 2011 at 7:21AM
Source: The Open Source Physics collection

It's a great program! With this helpful program, I finally understand the QWP.

When I realized that the input wave can change format to circular polarization or ellipse polarization, I loved it even more.

Thank you for your excellent program !

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/introphys/items/detail.cfm?ID=7176">Simov, Kiril, and Wolfgang Christian. "Quarter Wave Plate Program." Version 1.0.</a>

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K. Simov and W. Christian, Computer Program QUARTER WAVE PLATE PROGRAM, Version 1.0 (2008), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7176&DocID=360).

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K. Simov and W. Christian, Computer Program QUARTER WAVE PLATE PROGRAM, Version 1.0 (2008), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7176&DocID=360>.

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Simov, K., & Christian, W. (2008). Quarter Wave Plate Program (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7176&DocID=360

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Simov, Kiril, and Wolfgang Christian. "Quarter Wave Plate Program." Version 1.0. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7176&DocID=360 (accessed 28 April 2025).

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Simov, Kiril, and Wolfgang Christian. Quarter Wave Plate Program. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2008. Java 1.5. 28 Apr. 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7176&DocID=360>.

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