Linear light oscillating at 60 above the horizontal x-axis in the first and third quadrants passes through

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Linear light oscillating at 60° above the horizontal x-axis in the first and third quadrants passes through a quarter-wave plate with its fast axis horizontal. Explain why the light emerges as left elliptical with its major axis vertical.

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Optics

ISBN: 978-0133977226

5th edition

Authors: Eugene Hecht

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