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Suggestion: Regular Beam Splitters #15

Open Frosticle opened 1 month ago

Frosticle commented 1 month ago

I know there are the polarizing beam splitters, but those polarize the passing beams. I would like to have regular versions that just halve the light intensity and retain polarity or something similar while splitting the beam.

luccaPossamai commented 1 month ago

But why you don't increase the rotational speed of the source and polarizes the way you want? I mean, what is the advantage of doing this. The only thing I can think it's mess around with more ease, but you can do everything it does with this polarizing beam splitters. If you want the both of the beams to appear you can use a diagonal polarization before the splitter. If you want the both of the beams to have the same polarization and intensity you can use diagonal polarization after the splitter(take advantage of the directional dependency) - if you don't want a final diagonal polarization just polarize the both of em again. I hope I was clear, this polarization system can get a little tricky to get used to, but there's nothing like learning in practice messing with the mod itself.