A material built to tell left-handed light from right-handed light has long had a frustrating weakness. It mostly ignored ...

A single gold nanorod, far smaller than a wavelength of visible light, can be coaxed into emitting circularly polarized radiation simply by nudging the electron beam that excites it a few nanometers ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University have discovered that a purely inorganic crystal grown from water solution can emit circularly polarized light, a special form of light whose "handedness" ...

Generation of circularly polarized nonlinear signals from chiral metasurfaces with rotational symmetry under arbitrarily polarized excitation. Left and right circularly polarized light, where the ...

You've worn 3D glasses in cinemas, witnessing stunning depth as each eye sees a different image. You've put on polarized sunglasses in summer ...

Intense laser pulses can be used to manipulate or even switch the magnetization orientation of a material on extremely short time scales. Typically, such effects are thermally induced, as the absorbed ...

Astronomers have captured the first view of polarized light and the magnetic fields that surround Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milly Way. The new EHT ...