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How can light travel in a circle? In this video, we explore circular polarization, where the electric and magnetic fields of a plane wave trace out a circle in space. We also go over the Jones vectors for righthand circularly polarized and lefthand circularly polarized light, and hopefully clear up some of the confusion around the conventions used.

This is part of my graduate series on optoelectronics / photonics, and is based primarily on Coldren's book on Lasers as well as graduatelevel coursework I have taken in the EECS department at UC Berkeley.

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