An elliptically polarized wave may be resolved into two linearly polarized waves in phase quadrature, with their polarization planes at right angles to... 8 KB (1,128 words) - 01:21, 3 November 2023 |
Photon polarization is the quantum mechanical description of the classical polarized sinusoidal plane electromagnetic wave. An individual photon can be... 32 KB (4,946 words) - 23:08, 1 November 2023 |
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)... 59 KB (6,582 words) - 03:52, 16 April 2024 |
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... 38 KB (4,879 words) - 20:39, 19 March 2024 |
gravitational waves and any field theory that couples its constituents with the differential operators of vector analysis. Photon polarization Spin angular... 4 KB (511 words) - 15:21, 21 October 2023 |
norm Polarization (Lie algebra) Polarization (physics), the ability of waves to oscillate in more than one direction, in particular polarization of light... 3 KB (403 words) - 07:48, 9 July 2023 |
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... 17 KB (2,325 words) - 14:26, 21 February 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,578 words) - 05:29, 23 February 2024 |
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... 70 KB (8,291 words) - 18:50, 28 February 2024 |
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... 36 KB (4,889 words) - 20:22, 23 April 2024 |
In electrodynamics, linear polarization or plane polarization of electromagnetic radiation is a confinement of the electric field vector or magnetic field... 5 KB (666 words) - 01:36, 23 June 2023 |
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... 14 KB (1,707 words) - 19:14, 24 February 2024 |
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... 24 KB (3,030 words) - 13:16, 2 April 2024 |
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... 17 KB (2,036 words) - 12:47, 3 April 2024 |
can be written as a linear superposition of plane-waves of different frequencies and polarizations. The treatment in this article is classical but, because... 9 KB (1,226 words) - 14:45, 2 November 2023 |
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... 21 KB (2,950 words) - 23:27, 17 April 2024 |
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... 22 KB (4,091 words) - 18:44, 29 March 2024 |
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... 15 KB (2,023 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024 |
Conical refraction (category Polarization (waves)) was also observed in transverse sound waves in quartz. Birefringence Wave surface Crystal optics Polarization Caustics Images of conical refractions... 34 KB (5,282 words) - 05:44, 28 April 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,576 words) - 22:57, 29 October 2023 |
Babinet–Soleil compensator (category Polarization (waves)) The Babinet–Soleil compensator is a continuously variable, zero-order retarder. It consists of two birefringent wedges, one of which is movable, and another... 669 bytes (58 words) - 06:12, 16 May 2021 |
Polarizing filter (photography) (category Polarization (waves)) by a quarter-wave plate, which further transforms the linearly polarized light into circularly-polarized light. The circular polarization avoids problems... 11 KB (1,077 words) - 17:08, 16 February 2024 |