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Okay, thanks. That's what I thought. And this only works for the second flow I described, for the first one the quarter-wave plate would not change the polarization and would therefore practically be useless, right?

Hi, does the intensity change when circularly polarised light passes through a linear polariser? I am thinking of a flow like this: natural light -> vertical linear polariser -> quarter wave plate -> horizontal linear polariser -> intensity? After the first polariser, the intensity is 50%...