Polarization has always been a core property of light that is essential for a broad range of everyday applications, including ...

Light can carry angular momentum in two distinct ways. One comes from polarization, which describes how the electric field ...

Silicon nanospheres amplify second-harmonic generation from monolayer semiconductors over 40-fold while retaining ...

The direction in which the electromagnetic field of circularly polarized light rotates can be easily reversed by applying a voltage, RIKEN researchers have demonstrated. This could enable a new ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

Researchers have produced a record-thin optical quarter-waveplate from the two-dimensional material niobium oxychloride ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a holographic data storage approach that stores and retrieves information in three dimensions by ...

Researchers developed a holographic data storage approach that stores and retrieves information in three dimensions by ...

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 ...