TIRF and p- s-polarized incident linght

Posted by Shigeo Watanabe on Dec 08, 2009; 1:44am
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/paper-help-tp4115966p4129793.html


Dear all,

I have questions about TIRF and polarized light.
Incident light can be devided into p- and s- polarized light.
Then what happen to these two light when evanescent light is induced by these light.

Olympus webpage explains these, but I could not understand these phrase.

"A non-zero longitudinal component and phase lag manifests the p-polarized incident light, which has an evanescent electric field vector direction that remains in the plane of incidence. The longitudinal component induces the p-polarized light electric field vector to "cartwheel" along the interface and produce elliptical polarization of the evanescent field in the plane of propagation."

Olympus web page is here.
http://www.olympusmicro.com/primer/java/tirf/evaintensity/index.html

 
I appreciate if there are somebody who can explain these to me.


Sincerely

Shigeo Watanabe
Hamamatsu Photonics KK.