The first refers to one of the two circularly polarized waves that are the propagating modes in chiral media.
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If the oscillation trajectory is helical, the radiation will be circularly polarized, with the handedness determined by the helix.
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Quite recently yet another scheme has been proposed for the deuterium separation using Trojan wavepackets in circularly polarized electromagnetic field.
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For a circularly polarized state, M will be a circle with radius } } and with the middle in the origin.
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In circularly polarized light the direction of the electric field rotates at the frequency of the light, either clockwise or counter-clockwise.
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The chiral twisting that occurs in chiral LC phases also makes the system respond differently from right-and left-handed circularly polarized light.
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This can be better understood if we consider a wave of light that is circularly polarized ( seen to the right ).
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To create right-handed, clockwise circularly polarized light one simply rotates the axis of the quarter-wave plate 90?relative to the linear polarizer.
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For instance, right-circularly polarized light reflected from a dielectric surface at a grazing angle, will still be right-handed ( but elliptically ) polarized.
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A great blogger tuned me in to this by citing an old experiment in which circularly polarized light actually turns a target disk.
