Novel metasurface revolutionizes ubiquitous scientific tool, the polarimeter

Friday, January 8, 2016 - 11:01 in Physics & Chemistry

What do astrophysics, telecommunications and pharmacology have in common? Each of these fields relies on polarimeters — instruments that detect the direction of the oscillation of electromagnetic waves, otherwise known as the polarization of light. Even though the human eye isn’t particularly sensitive to polarization, it is a fundamental property of light. When light is […]

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