Optical Activity
- Author
- Peter Beyersdorf
- Published
- Tue 10 Feb 2009
- Episode Link
- http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/beyersdorf/Phys208/Optical%20Activity.m4a
We provide a physical description for the origin of optical activity and faraday rotation in a material and useeigenmodes as well as coupled mode analysis to solve for the behavior of fields propagating through an optically active material.
