Light is an unusually rich carrier of information. Its direction of travel, wavelength, and polarization can all be used to ...

Zurich — The ability to explore remote worlds in space has been enhanced through a polarization technique that allows the first ever detection of light reflected by extrasolar (exoplanet) planets. The ...

As fundamental properties of light, spectra and polarization carry vital information concerning the propagation of light waves. For example, spectral imaging can reflect the material composition of ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers have discovered that some iridescent butterflies use the polarization of light refracted from their intricate prismatic scales as a mating signal -- the first time that ...

(Nanowerk News) Cryptography is something of a new field for Olivier Martin, who has been studying the optics of nanostructures for many years as head of the Nanophotonics and Metrology Lab EPFL’s ...