Re: De-polarize light?


Danny Rich wrote:
A properly designed integrating sphere is a good depolarizer. The light is
muliply scattered from a nearly Rayleigh scatterer so by the time the light
exits the sphere it is fully depolarized (completely mixed amounts of each
polarization state).


There is a lot we don't know about the OP's application. Is the light
to be in a collimated beam? Is it monochromatic or broadband? Does he
really need not linearly polarized, so that circular would work, or
must it truly be random?

At any rate, it appears he is satisfied enough with what he has read
here to carry on.

martin+x@xxx wrote:
Now I understand the challenge. Thank you.

-Martin

Mark

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