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For which angle of incidence, reflected ray gets completely polarized?

For which angle of incidence, reflected ray gets completely polarized?

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Arun
25750 Points
4 years ago
When light travels from one medium to another medium, if the angle of incidence is equal to polarizing angle or Brewsterangle reflected rays from the boundary will be planepolarized. For this angle of incidence reflected ray andrefracted ray will be mutually perpendicular to each other.
Vikas TU
14149 Points
4 years ago
Dear student 
Let's say the incident light is unpolarized. When the incident light crosses the interface the light is absorbed temporarily by atoms in the seond medium. Electrons in these atoms oscillate back and forth in the direction of the electric field vectors in the refracted ray, perpendicular to the direction the refracted light is traveling.
The light is re-emitted by the atoms to form both the reflected and refracted rays. The electric field vectors in the light match the direction the electrons were oscillating, and they must be perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the wave. When light comes in at the Brewster angle the reflected wave has no electric field vectors parallel to the refracted ray, because the electrons do not oscillate along that direction. The reflected wave also has no electric field vectors parallel to the reflected ray, because that's the direction of propagation of the wave. The only direction possible is perpendicular to the plane of the picture, so the reflected ray is linearly polarized.
The refracted ray is partly polarized because it has more light with electric field vectors in the plane of the picture than perpendicular to it.
If the angle of incidence is something other than 0 degree and the Brewster angle, the reflected ray is also partly polarize

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