'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.
When linearly polarized light is passed through such an object, it will exit still linearly polarized, but with the axis of polarization rotated. A combination of linear and circular birefringence will have as basis polarizations two orthogonal elliptical polarizations; however, the term elliptical birefringence is rarely used.