A photon enters an extraordinarily intense laser field. When it exits, its polarization has rotated, as though empty space ...

Researchers at The University of Osaka, in collaboration with ULVAC, Inc. and Ritsumeikan University, have developed a new ...

Physicists have shown that ultra-thin two-dimensional materials such as tungsten diselenide can rotate the polarization of visible light by several degrees at certain wavelengths under small magnetic ...

Light has always carried more than brightness. In this case, it also carries direction and twist. That mix may open a new ...

Release Summary Text: In atomically thin semiconductors, enhancing the frequency-doubled light signal has come at the cost of losing polarization information tied to the valley degree of freedom.

Scientists report a new method that achieves for the first time valley polarization in centrosymmetric bulk materials in a non-material-specific way. This 'universal technique' may have major ...

A team of physicists has uncovered a surprising new way to explore one of science's greatest challenges: uniting the two fundamental theories that explain how our universe works—Einstein's theory of ...

By striking a gold nanorod off-center with an electron beam, researchers found a simple way to make light spin.

Researchers have produced a record-thin optical quarter-waveplate from the two-dimensional material niobium oxychloride (NbOCl2), measuring roughly 269 nanometers thick and operating at a wavelength ...

In a study published in Nano Letters, researchers demonstrated that light can change the electric polarization within the domains of a relaxor material in just trillionths of a second. Depiction of ...