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Re: POLARIZATION

Here's a weak, quantum argument:

A linear wave has twice the amplitude of its two component helical waves.
A helical wave has the same amplitude as its component linear waves.
In the limit, smaller helical waves are permitted than linear waves. QED

(I regret to use this kind of argument, because most readers here seem to
hold the photon model very dear; not always the best conceptual basis for
statistical ensembles, like photopolarization, for instance.

Please point out for the slower of those among us: what are you
arguing, and where is the argument? I surely don't see it. What
is the proposition? What are the assumptions?

I don't know what photopolarization is, either. Should I?

*A* photon picture is entirely adequate to model polarization
phenomena. *No* model explains all electrodynamic phenomena
except in an *ad hoc* manner.

Leigh