TY - JOUR AU - Krasilov, Yu. AB - NEW INSTRUMENTS AND MATERIALS A UNIVERSAL PHOTOELECTRIC APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LINEAR AND CIRCULAR POLARIZATION V. I. Burkov, V. A. Kizel', UDC 621.383:539.171 and Yu. I. Krasilov Photoelectric methods of polarization measurement may be divided into static (direct comparison of two fluxes polarized in mutually perpendicular planes [I, 2]) and dynamic, either by means of polarization compensation directly in the beam [3, 4] or by comparing the electrical signals from two differently polar- ized components [5, 6]. Equipment that has been described [1-7] has disadvantages due to: I) zero drift in dc amplifiers, 2) difficulty in completely depolarizing light without substantial loss [7], 3) parasitic modu- lation at the working frequency caused by: a) displacement of the light beam, b) deviation from the true coaxial position in the rotating polarizing prism as a whole, and 4) vibration during rotation. Our ap- paratus is designed to measure the degree of polarization P and the proportion of circular component C, and it is free from these defects. The polarized light (luminescence) from the specimen O passes through the half-shadow condenser lens L2, the polarizer P, the compensator C (which balances out the polarization from the condenser), and lens L3, which focusses the TI - A universal photoelectric apparatus for measuring linear and circular polarization JO - Journal of Applied Spectroscopy DO - 10.1007/BF00664032 DA - 2014-01-13 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/a-universal-photoelectric-apparatus-for-measuring-linear-and-circular-scLLTB0TOB SP - 1403 EP - 1405 VL - 9 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -