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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: unpolarized radiation
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Definition: radiation that exhibits no preferential directional property in a plane normal to the direction of propagation of the radiation, the direction and phase of the electric field vector being randomly distributed

Note 1 to entry: A beam of unpolarized radiation can be regarded as being composed of two components of equal amplitude but with orthogonal states of polarization, the two components being unrelated in phase.


Publication date:2020-12
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