Polarizer vs. Analyzer — What's the Difference?

A polarizer or polariser is an optical filter that lets light waves of a specific polarization pass through while blocking light waves of other polarizations. It can filter a beam of light of undefined or mixed polarization into a beam of well-defined polarization, that is polarized light.

To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations.

To induce polarization in or impart polarity to.

(Chemistry) To make a chemical analysis of.

To design so as to permit light only of a certain polarization

(Mathematics) To make a mathematical analysis of.

To cause to divide into two conflicting or opposing groups

To psychoanalyze.

To acquire polarity.

(US) an instrument for the analysis of something

To cause polarization of light or permit light of a certain polarization.

(US) a person who analyzes

To become divided into two conflicting or opposing groups

(optics) a type of polarizer

One who polarizes; one who divides a group or community into two extremes.

One who, or that which, analyzes.

(physics) Any device that produces polarized light.

The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

That which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal.

An instrument that performs analyses