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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Photon polarization is the quantum mechanical description of the classical polarized sinusoidal plane electromagnetic wave. An individual photon can be...
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    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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    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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    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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  • norm Polarization (Lie algebra) Polarization (physics), the ability of waves to oscillate in more than one direction, in particular polarization of light...
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