Bi-frequency pendulum 2: modeling apodization, Fourier and adiabatic following in optics

B. Ya. Zeldovich; M. J. Soileau

doi:10.1364/ETOP.2003.EWE6

Education and Training in Optics and Photonics
OSA Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2003),
paper EWE6
•https://doi.org/10.1364/ETOP.2003.EWE6

Bi-frequency pendulum 2: modeling apodization, Fourier and adiabatic following in optics

B. Ya. Zeldovich and M. J. Soileau

Education and Training in Optics and Photonics 2003

Tucson, Arizona United States
ISBN: 1-55752-759-8

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Primary, Secondary, and Outreach Education III (EWE)

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Abstract

Teaching optical phenomena with the use of analogies to the motion of bi-frequency pendulum on a rotary platform is described. Adiabatic following in liquid crystals and in quantum mechanics is visualized. Particular examples include also diffraction by an edge and Fourier properties of a step function.

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