The compensation mechanism may be {HEAD ~ a glass plate} that is disposed in {TAIL ~ an optical path} of a polarization component so that the optical path length of that polarization component can be made substantially equal to the optical path length of the other polarization component that traverses through a half wave plate 
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The compensation mechanism may be { HEAD ~ a glass plate } that is disposed in { TAIL ~ an optical path } of a polarization component so that the optical path length of that polarization component can be made substantially equal to the optical path length of the other polarization component that traverses through a half wave plate
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