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Polarization characterizes the oscillations in time the electromagnetic field is doing in the plane perpendicular to the propagation direction of a wave

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How does a photon leave trace of its polarization state in a photon detector but not trace o...

Some quantum erasure experiments involve polarization of photons. … How is it that a detector that usually cannot tell apart different incoming directions of photons can somehow tell apart different polarization? …
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double slit experiment with two opposite quarter waveplates

Now place in front of the left slit a quarter waveplate (let's call it QWP1) that changes a certain linear polarization (say, in the horizontal direction) into counterclockwise circular polarization. … , and the vertical polarization into counterclockwise circular polarization. …
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