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| May 13, 2019 at 20:39 | comment | added | scottbb♦ | To say that circ. pols. created "unpolarised" light is incorrect. The additional layer in circ. pols. (the quarter-wave plate, QWP) introduces a phase change between the transverse waves, inducing a circular polarization. Circularly polarized light is still definitely polarized, and can be circularly unpolarized with another QWP, resulting linearly polarized light. | |
| May 13, 2019 at 10:55 | history | answered | user84752 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |