Sentences with phrase «light polarizer»

«Student Land had a shock of black hair, dark piercing eyes, a jerky manner, and a sophisticated but incurable enthusiasm about almost everything in the world but especially about a light polarizer that he had devised in his teens in a rudimentary home laboratory,» we said in a 1938 profile.

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Filters called polarizers orient incoming light in a single direction.

Now Christoph Weder and his colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich have found a way to eliminate all the color filters and the first polarizer for each color, thereby greatly reducing the light losses.

An interesting effect happens if two polarizers are perpendicular and a third one is inserted between them on an angle (45 degrees is best): adding the third polarizer allows some light to get through, even though you might expect it to be an additional obstacle for the light.

If you take two crossed polarizers (for example, a horizontal and vertical one), no light will get through them.

Using a combination of careful anatomy, light measurements, and theoretical modelling, it was found that the mantis shrimp polarizers work by manipulating light across the structure rather than through its depth, which is how typical polarizers work.

Vector polarizers are a light filtering technology hidden behind the operation of many optical systems.

I learned that Samsung orients its polarizer (installed to reduce screen reflectance of ambient light) at a 45 degree angle so the display is viewable in either portrait or landscape orientation.