When ordinary light is made incident on a quarter wave plate, the emergent light is
Physics · Class 12 · CBSE — Wave Optics
When ordinary light is made incident on a quarter wave plate, the emergent light is
- linearly polarised
- circularly polarised
- unpolarised
- elliptically polarised
Answer
(D) elliptically polarised
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