Dr Nicholas Roberts in the School of Biological Sciences said: «When it comes to developing a new way to
make polarizers, nature has come up with optical solutions we haven't yet thought of.
Not exact matches
Photons that
make it through the first
polarizer are polarized by it, and then their probability of getting through the second one depends on the angle between their polarization and the second
polarizer's axis.
The combination of a xenon
polarizer and detector in the same device, together with the extraordinary sensitivity of the chip device, could help
make polarized xenon technology portable and less expensive for biomedical and other applications outside research laboratories.
Yet when you insert a third
polarizer between the two, oriented diagonally, then some photons
make it through.