polarizations
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A beam of unpolarised light can be thought of as containing a uniform mixture of linear polarizations at all possible angles.
A combination of linear and circular birefringence will have as basis polarizations two orthogonal elliptical polarizations; the term "elliptical birefringence" however is rarely used.
Because the rotation is not instantaneous, dipolar polarizations lose the response to electric fields at the highest frequencies.
For the right picture, filter was adjusted to eliminate certain polarizations of the scattered blue light from the sky.
For instance, choosing right and left circular polarizations as basis functions simplifies the solution of problems involving circular birefringence (optical activity) or circular dichroism.
And incoherent states can be modeled stochastically as a weighted combination of such uncorrelated waves with some distribution of frequencies (its spectrum ), phases, and polarizations.