Using Planck data from the cosmic microwave background radiation, an international team of researchers has observed a hint of new physics. The team developed a new method to measure the polarization ...

Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for robotic ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have succeeded in detecting laser-assisted electron scattering (LAES) using circularly polarized light for the first time. The use of circularly ...

Researchers have created a bilayer metasurface made of two stacked layers of titanium dioxide nanostructures, opening new possibilities for structuring light. Almost a decade ago, Harvard engineers ...

For years, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have engineered metasurfaces to manipulate light based on its polarization state. That research ...

Figure 1: Researchers use an optically pumped system to search for axion signatures. Two cells are filled with atoms of xenon (orange) and rubidium (blue). Circularly polarized laser light (red) ...

A proposed technique would use light and nanowires to generate electron beams with nearly pure spin polarization. In a polarized electron beam, the particles’ spins are not randomly oriented but favor ...