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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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    Nicol prism Pockels effect Polarization rotator Polarized light microscopy Polarizer Polaroid (polarizer) Radial polarization Rayleigh sky model Waveplate...
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  • Polaroid is a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used as a polarizer or polarizing filter. A trademark of the Polaroid Corporation, the term has since...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Polarized light microscopy can mean any of a number of optical microscopy techniques involving polarized light. Simple techniques include illumination...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Retrieved 2013-08-24. "Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer". www.library.hbs.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29. McElheny, Victor. "Edwin...
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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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    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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  • 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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    crystal between the polarizing filters, light passing through the first filter would be blocked by the second (crossed) polarizer. Before an electric...
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  • ideal electrode, the ideal polarizable electrode and the ideal non-polarizable electrode. Simply put, the ideal polarizable electrode is characterized...
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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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  • Polarized is a British-Canadian drama film, written and directed by Shamim Sarif and released in 2023. The film stars Holly Deveaux as Lisa, a young farm...
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  • simplest case, where the Jones matrix is for an ideal linear horizontal polarizer, reduces then to: J ( α , β , γ ) = [ c α 2 c β 2 c α c β [ c α s β s...
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    nanometers of iron oxide. A circular polarizer laminated to a surface can be used to eliminate reflections. The polarizer transmits light with one chirality...
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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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    (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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    reception during his short career, Billboard wrote: "The provocative and polarizing artist seemed to thrive on controversy as much as art, often blurring...
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    prism is a type of polarizer. It is an optical device made from calcite crystal used to convert ordinary light into plane polarized light. It is made in...
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    parties, mustering a slim majority over the DPP-led Pan-Green Coalition. Polarized politics emerged in Taiwan with the Pan-Blue preference for eventual Chinese...
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