Light has always carried more than brightness. In this case, it also carries direction and twist. That mix may open a new ...

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 ...

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 ...