They also knew that circularly polarized light is composed of transverse waves. Transverse waves are perpendicular to the direction the light is moving and can be used to control the particle's ...

The Rice researchers generated their trochoidal light waves by total internal reflection of linearly polarized light at an air-glass interface. This type of reflection produces a polarized evanescent ...

When the incident light was left-circularly polarized, the TM polariton wave propagated strongly in one direction; when the polarization was reversed, the propagation direction flipped. To quantify ...

A water wave, for example, is always up-down-up-down and never left-right-left-right; such a wave is “100 percent linearly polarized.” Light can be polarized as well, although generally the ...

Kerker showed that when ordinary, plane-polarized, light scatters from a nanoparticle (that is much smaller than the wavelength of light), highly asymmetric patterns are produced. The effect occurs in ...

A small fraction of this light is polarized (meaning the light waves vibrate in one plane). Researchers had already detected this polarized light in one pattern, known as "electric" or E-mode ...

Astronomers using the CHIME telescope are looking at strange, one-off cosmic explosions with a new angle. This could bring us closer to solving the lingering mystery of fast radio bursts.

Revise transverse and longitudinal waves for your physics GCSE foundation and higher triple science exams with Bitesize interactive practice quizzes covering feedback and common errors.

The proposed type of "bumped" solar cells would absorb 66 percent more transverse electric (TE)-polarized light and 36 percent more transverse magnetic (TM) ...