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Plane-polarized light may be resolved into two circularly polarized components. A schematic representation of the plane-polarized wave and its relation to the circularly polarized components is shown in Fig. 1. OL and OR are the rotating components of the left- and right-hand circularly polarized light, and OA is the vector sum which represents the amplitude of the planepolarized light. As OL and OR rotate, OA describes a sine wave motion along the axis of the light path.
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Allegrini, P.R., Zahler, P. (1981). CD Measurements to Probe the Structure of the Purple Membrane. In: Azzi, A., Brodbeck, U., Zahler, P. (eds) Membrane Proteins. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68077-9_22
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