polarizer. A modern type of absorptive polarizer is made of elongated silver nano-particles embedded in thin (≤0.5 mm) glass plates. These polarizers...
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artistic effect. For modern cameras, a circular polarizer (CPL) is typically used, which has a linear polarizer that performs the artistic function just described...
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Polarization (waves) (redirect from Polarized light)
Nicol prism Pockels effect Polarization rotator Polarized light microscopy Polarizer Polaroid (polarizer) Radial polarization Rayleigh sky model Waveplate...
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Polarizability usually refers to the tendency of matter, when subjected to an electric field, to acquire an electric dipole moment in proportion to that...
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Polaroid is a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used as a polarizer or polarizing filter. A trademark of the Polaroid Corporation, the term has since...
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Polarized light microscopy can mean any of a number of optical microscopy techniques involving polarized light. Simple techniques include illumination...
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Polarized pluralism is a two-party or multi-party political system which is seen as overly polarized and therefore as dysfunctional. It was originally...
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analyzed. The polarimeter is made up of two Nicol prisms (the polarizer and analyzer). The polarizer is fixed and the analyzer can be rotated. The prisms may...
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Brewster's angle (redirect from Polarized reflection)
incidence ("s-polarized"). A glass plate or a stack of plates placed at Brewster's angle in a light beam can, thus, be used as a polarizer. The concept...
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A polarized membrane is a lipid membrane that has a positive electrical charge on one side and a negative charge on another side, which produces the resting...
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A polarized 3D system uses polarization glasses to create the illusion of three-dimensional images by restricting the light that reaches each eye (an...
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brothers Steve and Darren Rosenberg. Malakye. [1] Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, "Kaenon Polarized", 2008, accessed June 28, 2011 Kaenon.com...
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Circular polarization (redirect from Circularly polarized light)
strongly circularly polarized. Two species of mantis shrimp have been reported to be able to detect circular polarized light. Polarizer 3D film Chirality...
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of polarizing sunglasses. Gaze at an evenly lit, textureless surface through the lens and rotate the polarizer. An option is to use the polarizer built...
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Glan–Taylor prism (redirect from Glan-Taylor polarizer)
of prism which is used as a polarizer or polarizing beam splitter. It is one of the most common types of modern polarizing prism. It was first described...
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Petrographic microscope (redirect from Polarizing microscope)
change the polarizing light directions, allowing some of the altered light to pass through the analyzer to the viewer. Using one polarizer makes it possible...
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Elliptical polarization (redirect from Elliptical polarizer)
the direction of propagation. An elliptically polarized wave may be resolved into two linearly polarized waves in phase quadrature, with their polarization...
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Glan–Foucault prism (redirect from Glan-Foucault polarizer)
(also called a Glan–air prism) is a type of prism which is used as a polarizer. It is similar in construction to a Glan–Thompson prism, except that two...
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Polarization (redirect from Polarize)
direction; polarization of light allows the glare-reducing effect of polarized sunglasses Polarization (antenna), the state of polarization (in the above...
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Glan prism (redirect from Glan polarizer)
prism or Glan polarizer may refer to: Glan–Thompson prism, a polarizer made from cemented calcite prisms Glan–Foucault prism, a polarizer made from air-spaced...
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property Polaroid (polarizer), a type of synthetic plastic sheet used to polarize light Polaroid Eyewear, with glare-reducing polarized lenses made from...
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Glan–Thompson prism (redirect from Glan-Thompson polarizer)
A Glan–Thompson prism is a type of polarizing prism similar to the Nicol prism and Glan–Foucault prism. A Glan–Thompson prism consists of two right-angled...
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Why We're Polarized is a 2020 non-fiction book by American journalist Ezra Klein, in which the author analyzes political polarization in the United States...
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propagation). Since the polarizer is vertically aligned, the light will be extinguished. Figure 2 shows a Faraday rotator with an input polarizer, and an output...
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In optics, polarized light can be described using the Jones calculus, invented by R. C. Jones in 1941. Polarized light is represented by a Jones vector...
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Anti-reflective coating (section Circular polarizer)
nanometers of iron oxide. A circular polarizer laminated to a surface can be used to eliminate reflections. The polarizer transmits light with one chirality...
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Ideal electrode (redirect from Ideally polarizable electrode)
ideal electrode, the ideal polarizable electrode and the ideal non-polarizable electrode. Simply put, the ideal polarizable electrode is characterized...
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; Landstreet, J. D.; Angel, J. R. P. (1970). "Discovery of circularly polarized light from a white dwarf". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 161: L77–L79...
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nature, water and water vapor polarize the sunlight (which itself is slightly polarized). By receiving the direction of polarized photons, some species can...
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Linear polarization (redirect from Plane polarized)
plane of polarization for more information. The orientation of a linearly polarized electromagnetic wave is defined by the direction of the electric field...
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