Light corn syrup is used to rotate the plane of polarized light on the stage of an overhead projector. A polarizing filter allows only those photons with electric fields oscillating in a single plane ...

Physicists at Stevens Institute of Technology use a 350-year-old theorem that explains the workings of pendulums and planets to reveal new properties of light waves. Credit: Stevens Institute of ...

What do you get when you add up a bunch of donuts? According to optical physicists: a croissant. That’s the result of new research revealing a never-before-seen property of light called self-torque.

Researchers customize the properties of broadband light sources using an AI algorithm and a photonic chip. Using machine-learning and an integrated photonic chip, researchers from INRS (Canada) and ...

A programmable semiconductor changes its electronic properties under UV light and reverts under a different wavelength, enabling optical writing and reading for potential computing applications.