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What happens when light oscillates in a single plane, and how polarizers select for it.

The cosine-squared relationship between polarizer angle and transmitted intensity.

How quarter-wave plates transform linear polarization into rotating electric field vectors.

A complete mathematical description of any polarization state using four measurable quantities.

How optical elements transform polarization states — the linear algebra of light.

How scattering encodes information about particle size, shape, and composition into polarization.