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 ...

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

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 ...

Revise transverse and longitudinal waves for your physics GCSE foundation and higher triple science exams with Bitesize interactive practice quizzes covering feedback and common errors.

Analysing the total internal reflection of a polarized plane wave, Fedorov found a helicity-dependent transverse component of the Poynting vector in the transmitted evanescent field.

Polarized light is made up of waves that are orientated in the same way — vertically, horizontally, or at an angle between those two directions.

Polarized light has a preferred direction and causes Earth's blue sky. A similar mechanism is also responsible for polarizing the cosmic microwave background.

Context 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.

The researchers use a tightly focused, azimuthally polarized light beam instead of a plane-polarized one to excite a silicon sphere measuring 156 nm across coated with a 6-nm-thin layer of SiO 2. The ...