Polarization by scattering.

When some electromagnetic wave is incident on a scatterer atom, whose size is comparable to wave length of wave, then due to the electric vector of the incident wave the atom starts oscillating.This oscillating atom(acting as small dipole) itself emitts radiations. But the reemission of e.m. wave by the oscillating dipole is such that it emitts e.m. waves in all directions except in the direction of oscillation.This fact can be used for polarization of light.

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