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Re: POLARIZATION



LUDWIK KOWALSKI says:
There is only one basic kind
of polarization, linear. Neither circular nor elliptical polarization is
possible when linear polarization is not allowed.

???????
If linear polarization can be described as a superposition of circular
polarization, and vice versa, how can one be more 'basic' than the other?

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--James McLean
jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu
post doc
UC San Diego, Chemistry