these waves do not exhibit polarization. Transverse waves that exhibit polarization include electromagnetic waves such as light and radio waves, gravitational...
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electrodynamics, circular polarization of an electromagnetic wave is a polarization state in which, at each point, the electromagnetic field of the wave has a constant...
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An elliptically polarized wave may be resolved into two linearly polarized waves in phase quadrature, with their polarization planes at right angles to...
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Photon polarization is the quantum mechanical description of the classical polarized sinusoidal plane electromagnetic wave. An individual photon can be...
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directions of polarization, and express any wave linearly polarized in any other direction as a linear combination (mixing) of those two waves. By combining...
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Birefringence (redirect from Extraordinary polarization)
terms of polarization, understanding light as a wave with field components in transverse polarization (perpendicular to the direction of the wave vector)...
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Polarizer (redirect from Polarization Beam Splitter)
optical filter that lets light waves of a specific polarization pass through while blocking light waves of other polarizations. It can filter a beam of light...
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associated norm Polarization (Lie algebra) Polarization (physics), the ability of waves to oscillate in more than one direction; polarization of light allows...
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Waveplate (redirect from Wave Plate)
the polarization state of a light wave travelling through it. Two common types of waveplates are the half-wave plate, which rotates the polarization direction...
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gravitational waves and any field theory that couples its constituents with the differential operators of vector analysis. Photon polarization Spin angular...
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it is called an E-mode polarization. If it is crossed at 45-degree angles, it is called a B-mode polarization. Plane waves fluctuations (like density...
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Unpolarized light (category Polarization (waves))
of polarization and phase of a single monochromatic wave, representing a pure state of polarization as described above. However any mixture of waves of...
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Huygens principle of double refraction (category Polarization (waves))
sensitive to polarization. Light waves that exhibit oscillation in a single plane are referred to as plane-polarized light waves. In such waves, the electric...
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Fresnel equations (category Polarization (waves))
light is a transverse wave, when no one realized that the waves were electric and magnetic fields. For the first time, polarization could be understood...
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Optical rotation (redirect from Rotary polarization)
rotation, also known as polarization rotation or circular birefringence, is the rotation of the orientation of the plane of polarization about the optical axis...
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Polarization of electromagnetic radiation is a useful tool for detecting various astronomical phenomenon. For example, energy can become polarized by passing...
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Brewster's angle (redirect from Polarization Angle)
Brewster's angle (also known as the polarization angle) is an angle of incidence at which light with a particular polarization is perfectly transmitted through...
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In electrodynamics, linear polarization or plane polarization of electromagnetic radiation is a confinement of the electric field vector or magnetic field...
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waves, while if the rods are vertical, it radiates vertically polarized waves. An antenna receiving the radio waves must have the same polarization as...
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Faraday effect (category Polarization (waves))
circularly polarized waves propagating at slightly different speeds, a property known as circular birefringence. Since a linear polarization can be decomposed...
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problem Phase spectrum Phase velocity Phasor Polarization (waves) Coherence (physics), the quality of a wave to display a well defined phase relationship...
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel (section Polarization)
between polarization and the resolution of forces in a plane, mentioning transverse waves only in a footnote. The introduction of transverse waves into the...
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right-handed circularly polarized waves, the difference in phase velocity causes the polarization direction of a linearly-polarized wave to rotate as it propagates...
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Babinet–Soleil compensator (category Polarization (waves))
The Babinet–Soleil compensator is a continuously variable, zero-order retarder consists of two birefringent wedges, one of which is movable, and another...
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can be written as a linear superposition of plane-waves of different frequencies and polarizations. The treatment in this article is classical but, because...
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Polarimetry (category Polarization (waves))
and interpretation of the polarization of transverse waves, most notably electromagnetic waves, such as radio or light waves. Typically polarimetry is...
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Pockels effect (category Polarization (waves))
is altered so the polarization state of incident light beam is changed. Therefore, Pockels cells are used as voltage-controlled wave plates as well as...
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Polarimeter (category Polarization (waves))
S1 and S2. The light waves may be considered to correspond to waves in the string. The polarizer S1 allows only those light waves which move in a single...
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Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is a form of modal dispersion where two different polarizations of light in a waveguide, which normally travel at the...
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Stokes parameters (category Polarization (waves))
The Stokes parameters are a set of values that describe the polarization state of electromagnetic radiation. They were defined by George Gabriel Stokes...
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