Which effect arises given incorrectly aligned polarizer lenses?

💡 Explanation

Misaligned polarizers cause increased signal loss because the mechanism, Malus's law, states that intensity decreases proportional to the cosine squared of the angle between polarization axes; therefore transmission plummets, rather than subtle phase shift anomalies.

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