They also knew that circularly polarized light is composed of transverse waves. Transverse waves are perpendicular to the direction the light is moving and can be used to control the particle's ...

The Rice researchers generated their trochoidal light waves by total internal reflection of linearly polarized light at an air-glass interface. This type of reflection produces a polarized evanescent ...

EPFL scientists have developed a new technique that lets researchers watch, with unprecedented sensitivity, how materials ...

It has been known for more than a century, since the seminal works by J.H. Poynting 1, that light carries momentum and angular momentum (AM) 2,3. These are the main dynamical properties of ...

Kerker showed that when ordinary, plane-polarized, light scatters from a nanoparticle (that is much smaller than the wavelength of light), highly asymmetric patterns are produced. The effect occurs in ...

A water wave, for example, is always up-down-up-down and never left-right-left-right; such a wave is “100 percent linearly polarized.” Light can be polarized as well, although generally the ...

Astronomers using the CHIME telescope are looking at strange, one-off cosmic explosions with a new angle. This could bring us closer to solving the lingering mystery of fast radio bursts.

The photo showed the first image in polarized light of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. However, it was not the first-ever image of the astronomical object. That ...