'In many ways, the manufacturing strategy is helping us redefine and reinvent how we do business in General Motors,' said Scott Whybrew, GM's executive director of global manufacturing engineering.
When the phase shift is exactly Â±90Â°, then circular polarization is produced (fourth and fifth figures). Thus is circular polarization created in practice, starting with linearly polarized light and employing a quarter-wave plate to introduce such a phase shift.
There are natural crystals, such as calcite and quartz, that divide a single beam of unpolarized light into two separate polarized beams of equal intensity. By splitting the two polarized beams, it is possible to make a very efficient linear polarizer. linear polarizer transmits light uniformly vibrating in a single plane while absorbing the orthaganol plane. We usually describe a single plane or beam of polarized light in terms of what we call the pattern of vibration. If the vibrations are in one direction, the light is linearly polarized (See Figure 1).