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unusual facts about polarized light



Axion

In the Italian PVLAS experiment polarized light propagates through the magnetic field of a 5 T dipole magnet, searching for a small anomalous rotation of the direction of polarization.

Jones calculus

In optics, polarized light can be described using the Jones calculus, discovered by R. C. Jones in 1941.

Marie Pasteur

She worked with him on expanding his first researches, around 1848, on the remarks previously made by Mitscherlich on the different optical properties concerning polarized light of tartaric acid when it came from natural wines, wine lees and when it was synthesized in a laboratory.


see also

B-mode

B-modes, a pattern of polarized light originating from the Big Bang

Optical rotatory dispersion

Circular dichroism causes incident linearly polarized light to become elliptically polarized.

Polarization-division multiplexing

Over a long-distance system, these drifts accumulate progressively without limit, resulting in rapid and erratic rotation of the polarized light's Jones vector over the entire Poincaré sphere.