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English: The operation of a polarization independent isolator, showing the propagation of light through the structure. The forward travelling light is shown in blue, and the backward propagating light is shown in red. The rays were traced using an ordinary refractive index of 2, and an extra-ordinary refractive index of 3. The wedge angle is 7 degrees. The first birefringent wedge has its slow axis vertical and its fast axis horizontal. The Faraday rotator is a 45 degree rotator. The second birefringent wedge has its slow axis at 45 degrees and its fast axis at -45 degrees. Therefore light travelling in the forward direction experiences symmetric refraction. Due to the non reciprocal rotation, the light travelling in the backward direction experiences asymmetric refraction, hence is diverged. Upload drew the image

Date 17 July 2007 (original upload date)

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Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
2007-07-17 18:16	500×300× (8747 bytes)	Grahamwild	new size
2007-07-17 15:49	1000×700× (19196 bytes)	Grahamwild	A polarization independent isolator.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	03:13, 27 October 2015	500 × 300 (9 KB)	OgreBot	(BOT): Reverting to most recent version before archival
	03:13, 27 October 2015	1,000 × 700 (19 KB)	OgreBot	(BOT): Uploading old version of file from en.wikipedia; originally uploaded on 2007-07-17 15:49:56 by Grahamwild
	04:53, 24 October 2015	500 × 300 (9 KB)	Peacearth	Transferred from en.wikipedia