{"id":104325,"date":"2015-07-15T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=dedb6a29948cd6c1b1d783084539b153"},"modified":"2015-07-15T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:00:00","slug":"visualizing-the-phenomena-of-wave-interference-phase-shifting-and-polarization-by-interactivecomputer-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=104325","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing the phenomena of wave interference, phase-shifting and polarization by interactive\r\ncomputer simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this manuscript a computer based simulation is proposed for teaching concepts of interference of<br \/>\nlight (under the scheme of a Michelson interferometer), phase-shifting and polarization states. The<br \/>\nuser can change some parameters of the interfering waves, such as their amplitude and phase<br \/>\ndifference in order to graphically represent the polarization state of a simulated travelling wave.<br \/>\nRegarding to the interference simulation, the user is able to change the wavelength and type of the<br \/>\ninterfering waves by selecting combinations between planar and Gaussian profiles, as well as the<br \/>\noptical path difference by translating or tilting one of the two mirrors in the interferometer<br \/>\nsetup, all of this via a graphical user interface (GUI) designed in MATLAB. A theoretical<br \/>\nintroduction and simulation results for each phenomenon will be shown. Due to the simulation<br \/>\ncharacteristics, this GUI can be a very good non-formal learning resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this manuscript a computer based simulation is proposed for teaching concepts of interference of<br \/>\nlight (under the scheme of a Michelson interferometer), phase-shifting and polarization states. The<br \/>\nuser can change some parameters of the interfering&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-104325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}