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Grade 12th passWave Optics

Show that the plane polarised light and circulary polarised light Are special case of ellipticaly polarised light

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7 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Saurabh Koranglekar
6 Years ago
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Profile image of Vikas TU
6 Years ago
Dear student 
If light is composed of two plane waves of equal amplitude by differing in phase by 90°, then the light is said to be circularly polarized. If two plane waves of differing amplitude are related in phase by 90°, or if the relative phase is other than 90° then the light is said to be elliptically polarized.
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