Talk:Wave plate

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Help with this template Comments: edit – history – watch – refresh [edit] Hyphenation and this term Sometimes on sees the term "half wave plate" hyphenated in this manner: "half-wave plate", but since "half" does not modify "wave" but rather "wave plate" then the term should not be hyphenated at all.

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Regarding the image that was just added (and deleted by me): It's not clear that it shows a wave plate. If you put an ordinary polarizer at 45° between two crossed polarizers, you will get transmission. No wave plate needed. No quantum mechanics either; it's purely classical optics. The comments on Commons about the image showing a wave plate were not put there by the original poster but were added as speculation by another editor. I have removed them, and added a note explaining the situation.--Srleffler 07:09, 3 November 2006 (UTC)