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Importing Wikidata short description: "Confinement of the electric field vector or magnetic field vector to a given plane along the direction of propagation" (Shortdesc helper)
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is the [[Jones vector]] in the x-y plane.
 
The wave is linearly polarized when the phase angles <math> \alpha_x^{ } , {def}}{=}\alpha_y \alpha </math> are equal,.
 
:<math> \alpha_x = \alpha_y \ \stackrel{\mathrm{def}}{=}\ \alpha </math>.
 
This represents a wave polarized at an angle <math> \theta </math> with respect to the x axis. In that case, the Jones vector can be written