A similar effect leads to elliptical polarization of light in optics.
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Circular polarization is a limiting case of the more general condition of elliptical polarization.
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A quarter-wave plate can be used to produce elliptical polarization as well.
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If the angle is in between 0?and 45?the resulting wave has an elliptical polarization.
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In such a material, left-and right-rotating elliptical polarizations can propagate at different speeds.
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This can be used to change the polarization direction of linearly polarized light or to convert between linear, circular and elliptical polarizations with waveplates.
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A combination of linear and circular birefringence will have as basis polarizations two orthogonal elliptical polarizations; the term " elliptical birefringence " however is rarely used.
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:: I Think you will find in normal space or materials that the fields will still be in-phase, for circular or elliptical polarization.
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For example, FM broadcast radio stations commonly broadcast with circular polarization or elliptical polarization; these are ways to send a signal that has both sorts of polarization simultaneously.
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In his work with optics, he discovered the elliptical polarization of light reflected from glassy substances in the vicinity of the angle of polarization, as predicted by Augustin-Louis Cauchy.
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