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Questions related to the perception and measurement of light (primarily in the visible range), its mathematical description, the reproduction of colors by different means, color combinations, etc. Please use the tag [electromagnetic-radiation] if you want to refer to the general form of light.

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Does fog produce right-handed or left-handed circularly polarized light?

I have read that when unpolarized light travels through the water droplets in fog, it becomes circularly polarized, but is this polarization right-handed, left-handed, or both? And what would determin …
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What happens to circularly polarized light when it hits a linear polarizer?

I have seen a lot of examples of what happens when circularly polarized light passes through a circular polarizer composed of a quarter-wave plate and a linear polarizer, but what would happen to the …
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What natural phenomena produce circularly polarized light?

There are a few websites that talk about how certain creatures can produce circularly polarized light in nature (i.e., certain beetles, fireflies, mantis shrimp, etc.), but I have found very few artic …
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