Properties of polarized beam splitters

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PBS will split unpolarized light into beams of differing polarization, but what will it do to linearly polarized light?
 
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It depends on how the polarization axis is aligned. Even linearly polarized light can be represented as the sum of two orthogonal polarizations and can be split.
 
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