Reverse orientation of eliptically polarised light

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Hello,

How can you reverse the orientation (handedness) of elliptically polarised light?

Thanks!

Graham.
 

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Take a look at this:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~scdiroff/lds/LightOptics/CircularPolarization/CircularPolarization.html

Take it apart and put it together again with a phase change?
 

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