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    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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  • 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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    Nicol prism Pockels effect Polarization rotator Polarized light microscopy Polarizer Polaroid (polarizer) Radial polarization Rayleigh sky model Waveplate...
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  • Polaroid is the K-sheet polarizer, which consists of aligned polyvinylene chains in a PVA polymer created by dehydrating PVA. This polarizer material is particularly...
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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Polarized light microscopy can mean any of a number of optical microscopy techniques involving polarized light. Simple techniques include illumination...
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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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    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 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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  • 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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    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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    (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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • using a polarizer and a Pockels cell, which acts like a quarter wave-plate. When a pulse with vertical polarization is reflected off the polarizer, after...
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  • polarization: the first horizontal polarizer, a waveplate (retarder) and a second horizontal polarizer.: 95–96  Linearly polarized light travels fastest when...
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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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    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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  • presidential candidate Hugo Chávez used economic inequality in the country to polarize voters, employing a popular and aggressive tone to gain popularity. Also...
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  • 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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  • The polarizable continuum model (PCM) is a commonly used method in computational chemistry to model solvation effects. If it is necessary to consider...
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