Comment on Build a toy quantum computer at homeparentComments−jlokier6yWhere goes the energy of the orthogonal component of the field? Absorbed by the polarizer, reflected, ... ?It depends on the type of polariser.The type used in LCD displays and 3D cinema glasses absorbs, that's why everything looks darker through them but they don't look like mirrors.A polarising beam splitter reflects one mode and passes the other. It looks like a half-mirror.
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It depends on the type of polariser.
The type used in LCD displays and 3D cinema glasses absorbs, that's why everything looks darker through them but they don't look like mirrors.
A polarising beam splitter reflects one mode and passes the other. It looks like a half-mirror.