light and other electromagnetic radiation, the plane of polarization is the plane spanned by the direction of propagation and either the electric vector or...

single direction. In circular or elliptical polarization, the fields rotate at a constant rate in a plane as the wave travels, either in the right-hand...

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

first law of reflection (first law of refraction, respectively). The orientation of the incident light's polarization with respect to the plane of incidence...

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...

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

passes through a sample of a compound in solution.: 2–65  Compounds which rotate the plane of polarization of a beam of plane polarized light clockwise...

introduced the term plane of polarization. In the case of polarization by reflection, his "plane of polarization" was the plane of the incident and reflected...

polarization is the polarization of electromagnetic radiation such that the tip of the electric field vector describes an ellipse in any fixed plane intersecting...

aperture) and the direction of maximum radiation. The electric field or "E" plane determines the polarization or orientation of the radio wave. For a vertically...

superposition of plane-waves of different frequencies and polarizations. The treatment in this article is classical but, because of the generality of Maxwell's...

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

oscillates in the defined plane of the polarizer may pass through. That plane is called the plane of polarization. The plane of polarization is turned by optically...

is called the Faraday effect: the plane of polarization can be rotated, forming a Faraday rotator. The results of reflection from a magneto-optic material...

is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light. These optically anisotropic...

field is in the plane of incidence. The p polarization refers to polarization of the electric field in the plane of incidence (the xy plane in the derivation...

equinox, the band of maximal polarization is defined by the north-zenith-south plane, or meridian. In particular, the polarization is vertical at the...

on the Earth-Moon-Earth path. The plane of polarization of radio waves rotates as they pass through ionized layers of the Earth's atmosphere. This effect...

component of polarization (perpendicular or parallel to the plane of incidence), and the shifts vary with the angle of incidence. The explanation of this effect...

material has a slightly rotated plane of polarization. It is similar to the Faraday effect where the plane of polarization of the transmitted light is rotated...

self-consistent field level of theory. In the next level, additional functions are added to describe polarization of the electron density of the atom in molecules...

of polarization of a beam of light, whereas the dextrorotatory form (the (+)-form) will rotate clockwise on the plane of polarization of a beam of light...

theory of the magnetic rotation of the plane of polarization of light" (part 2), American Journal of Mathematics, vol. 3, nos. 1–2, pp. 89–113, March...

light waves of a specific polarization pass through while blocking light waves of other polarizations. It can filter a beam of light of undefined or...

"achiral". As polarized light passes through a chiral molecule, the plane of polarization, when viewed along the axis toward the source, will be rotated clockwise...

or plane. In the case of linear polarization, it is often useful to add the relative orientation of that plane, perpendicular to the direction of travel...

of light and rewrote the theory in analytical form. His discovery of the polarization of light by reflection was published in 1809 and his theory of double...

the plane of polarization of linearly polarized light is rotated when the light rays travel along the magnetic field direction in the presence of a transparent...

resulting polarization of the emerging light is found by taking the product of the Jones matrix of the optical element and the Jones vector of the incident...

blocked. Thus the polarization direction can be used to map the galactic magnetic field. The degree of polarization is on the order of 1.5% for stars at...