Can a single photon have different kinds of polarization?

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can a single photon have different kinds of polarization?

say linearly polarized along x-axis
circular polarized along y-axis
mixed polarized along z-axis

actually mixed polarization in a single photon (along a particular axis) cannot happen, right?

it can only happen in a beam (which consists of many photons)
 
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