Sentences with phrase «first polarizer»

Say that the first polarizer is horizontal.

Photons that make it through the first polarizer are polarized by it, and then their probability of getting through the second one depends on the angle between their polarization and the second polarizer's axis.

Now Christoph Weder and his colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich have found a way to eliminate all the color filters and the first polarizer for each color, thereby greatly reducing the light losses.