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Left-Handed Circular Polarization |
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| Left-Hand Circular Polarization (LHCP) occurs when the horizontal field component is -90 degrees out-of-phase with the vertical field component. |
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| Notes: |
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- This time curl the fingers of your left hand around the circular path of the field arrows. If this is truly a LHCP uniform plane wave, your thumb should be pointing in the direction of propagation.
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- For both types of circular polarization, the magnitude of the field does not vary with respect to time. The fields simply rotate with a constant angular velocity of 2pf radians/sec, where f is the frequency of radiation.
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