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Light can be considered as a transverse electromagnetic wave if it propagates in vacuum or infinite isotropic media.
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S. Zhang, W. Holzapfel, Orthogonal Polarization in Lasers (Wiley, 2013)
S. Huard, Polarization of Light (Wiley, 1997)
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Eichler, H.J., Eichler, J., Lux, O. (2018). Polarization. In: Lasers. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 220. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99895-4_15
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