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"Light experienced in everyday life is mostly non-polarized - that is, the\n",
"tip of the electric or magnetic field vectors moves randomly in the\n",
"plane perpendicular to the propagation direction. With the use of\n",
"appropriate tools, unpolarized light can be turned into a wide\n",
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"polarization) or an ellipse (elliptical polarization) in the plane\n",
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"interactions between the electromagnetic field and the molecule,\n",
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"When the inducing field is time-dependent, the birefringence is \n",
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"provided by birefringences induced by static fields can differ\n",
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