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Figure 18: Progression of elliptically polarized wave (see text).

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In radiation: Double refraction
In the case of elliptic polarization, the field vector generates an ellipse in a plane perpendicular to the propagation direction as the wave proceeds. Circular polarization is a special case of elliptic polarization in which the so-described ellipse degenerates into a circle.
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