these waves do not exhibit polarization. Transverse waves that exhibit polarization include electromagnetic waves such as light and radio waves, gravitational...

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...

An elliptically polarized wave may be resolved into two linearly polarized waves in phase quadrature, with their polarization planes at right angles to...

directions of polarization, and express any wave linearly polarized in any other direction as a linear combination (mixing) of those two waves. By combining...

Photon polarization is the quantum mechanical description of the classical polarized sinusoidal plane electromagnetic wave. An individual photon can be...

terms of polarization, understanding light as a wave with field components in transverse polarization (perpendicular to the direction of the wave vector)...

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...

gravitational waves and any field theory that couples its constituents with the differential operators of vector analysis. Photon polarization Spin angular...

In electrodynamics, linear polarization or plane polarization of electromagnetic radiation is a confinement of the electric field vector or magnetic field...

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...

of polarization and phase of a single monochromatic wave, representing a pure state of polarization as described above. However any mixture of waves of...

associated norm Polarization (Lie algebra) Polarization (physics), the ability of waves to oscillate in more than one direction; polarization of light allows...

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...

rotation, also known as polarization rotation or circular birefringence, is the rotation of the orientation of the plane of polarization about the optical axis...

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...

electromagnetic waves, radio waves in a vacuum travel at the speed of light, and in the Earth's atmosphere at a slightly slower speed. Radio waves are generated...

vibration carries less risk of confusion than plane of polarization. For electromagnetic (EM) waves in an isotropic medium (that is, a medium whose properties...

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...

circularly polarized waves propagating at slightly different speeds, a property known as circular birefringence. Since a linear polarization can be decomposed...

and interpretation of the polarization of transverse waves, most notably electromagnetic waves, such as radio or light waves. Typically polarimetry is...

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...

right-handed circularly polarized waves, the difference in phase velocity causes the polarization direction of a linearly-polarized wave to rotate as it propagates...

can be written as a linear superposition of plane-waves of different frequencies and polarizations. The treatment in this article is classical but, because...

problem Phase spectrum Phase velocity Phasor Polarization (waves) Coherence (physics), the quality of a wave to display a well defined phase relationship...

The Stokes parameters are a set of values that describe the polarization state of electromagnetic radiation. They were defined by George Gabriel Stokes...

modeling light waves as transverse elastic waves with vibrations perpendicular to what had previously been called the plane of polarization. Using old experimental...

Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is a form of modal dispersion where two different polarizations of light in a waveguide, which normally travel at the...

of B-mode polarization in the CMB. The polarization modes of the CMB may provide more information about the influence of gravitational waves on the development...

by a quarter-wave plate, which further transforms the linearly polarized light into circularly-polarized light. The circular polarization avoids problems...

transverse field can thus act as a switchable wave plate, rotating the plane of polarization of a wave travelling through it. In combination with polarizers...