Sentences with phrase «polarized light»

That could be detected by looking for a particular pattern of polarized light in the cosmic microwave background, known as B - mode polarization.

Kono and Li credited physicist Motoaki Bamba of Osaka University for providing a theoretical basis for the discovery and Katsumasa Yoshioka of Yokohama National University and a former visiting scholar at Rice for providing a device to produce circularly polarized light in the terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Dr Majumder and his team are working with graphite industry partner, Strategic Energy Resources Ltd and an expert in polarized light imaging, Dr. Rudolf Oldenbourg from the Marine Biological Laboratory, USA, to explore how this work can be translated and commercialised.

The crystals are colorless, and were imaged using polarized light microscopy to enhance the contrast and color of the image, which is eight millimeters wide.

We confirm the sharp dip / decrement in scattered light in agreement with polarized light observations.

When polarized light is passed through them, you can see brilliant colors — reds and greens and yellows and blues that are diagnostic of the different minerals.

The method involves the super-sensitive detection of the rotation of linearly polarized light when it interacts with electron spins in the material.

This photo uses polarized light microscopy to examine leaf hairs on the shrub Deutzia scabra, also known as «Fuzzy deutzia.»

Recently, a team of researchers led by Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering, encoded multiple holographic images in a metasurface that can be unlocked separately with differently polarized light.

ACC is initially nucleated as revealed by polarized light microscopy (fig.

«They all have the same shape, but they do not emit polarized light because they are round.

On the other hand a fructose solution will rotate polarized light to the left.

We see polarized light in everyday life: At the beach on a hazy day, polarized sunglasses filter out polarized glare from water - scattered photons, so that we can better see our surroundings.

The team observed polarized light coming from dust within the nebula using several facilities, including the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array.

We show, using a simulation based on polarized light data, that these blobs are actually part of the ring at 180 mas.

While humans can not detect this vibrational state of light without technology, it is becoming increasingly evident that many species of fish can; lab - based studies hint that some fish have even adapted ways to use polarization to their advantage, including developing platelets within their skin that reflect and manipulate polarized light so the fish are camouflaged.

As polarized light bounces off of these crystals, they appear as tiny bright dots when observed through the phone's camera lens — enabling an instant, accurate diagnosis.

But the researchers have demonstrated experimentally that their setup — which includes lasers to feed beams of polarized light into a network of optical fibers, beam - splitters and other optical devices — gives results that agree closely with their predictions.

For these studies, NIST developed a direct - current (DC) magnetometer in which polarized light is used as a detector to measure the «spin» of rubidium atoms induced by magnetic fields.

Since astronomers don't know much about how strongly galactic dust polarizes light, researchers involved in the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, or BICEP, experiment relied on whatever information they could get their hands on.

The bats may have evolved to reset their navigation system using polarized light because that cue persists long after sunset and is available even when skies are cloudy.

Using a technique called integrated photoelasticity, they immerse the drop in a liquid and shine polarized light through it.

While my doctorate provided the modern explanation for comets (covered in a dusty, insulating layer), the earlier work was an advance in the theoretical treatment of polarized light passing through inhomogeneous, unevenly absorbing media... in other words, planetary atmospheres.

Polarization refers to the specific orientation of the photon, like vertical or horizontal (polarizing sunglasses preferentially block horizontally polarized light), analogous to the two sides of a coin.

Like polarized light (which vibrates in one direction and is produced by the scattering of visible light off the surface of the ocean, for example), the polarized «B - mode» microwaves the scientists discovered were produced when CMB radiation from the early universe scattered off electrons 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when the cosmos cooled enough to allow protons and electrons to combine into atoms.

Researchers found that lookdown fish camouflage themselves through a complex manipulation of polarized light after it strikes the fish skin.

«GPI not only sees the disk more clearly than previous instruments, it can also measure how polarized its light appears, which has proven crucial in under - standing its physical properties.»

In one chamber, circularly polarized light transfers angular momentum to the rubidium atoms» electrons.

Because electrons scatter polarized light more than non-polarized light, that observation will give the scientists a bead on what the electrons are doing, and by extension, what the solar wind is doing — how fast it flows, how hot it is and even where it comes from.

When we use POL - 2, the JCMT can detect and examine polarized light!

How do your account of the similarity of stress / strain of space caused by Big Bang & Black Hole and the signal of polarized light pick up, is this from the Dying or Crying one.

Several types of minerals — especially ultrapure crystals of calcite, cordierite, and tourmaline — can split a beam of sunlight to form two images, with polarized light taking a slightly different path than the main beam.

Because synchrotron radiation is one of only a limited number of phenomena that can create polarized light, these data provided the crucial link between synchrotron radiation and the prompt phase of GRB160625B.

A magnetic field can also influence how much polarized light is emitted as time passes and the burst evolves.

S. ensidens may have been able to perceive polarized light and use the angle of the sun like a compass, as some modern lizards do.

Polarized sunglasses reject polarized light to reduce glare.

The BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole used a specialized array of superconducting detectors to capture polarized light from billions of years ago.

Not far from where Edwin Land — the inventor of the Polaroid camera — made his pioneering discoveries about polarized light, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are continuing to unlock the power of polarization.

Polarized light allowed subsurface stress patterns that would result in rock fracturing in nature to be observed as the dyke grew.

Such large black holes are already known to have strong magnetic fields and to make polarized light rotate.

While polarized light has been the preferred option for malaria detection due to its increased sensitivity, its implementation into mainstream microscopy has been hindered by its complex configurations, maintenance, size and cost — up until now.

In February, the group reported in Science that they had developed a film containing a light - emitting polymer that directly produces green polarized light when illuminated by an ultraviolet backlight.

By using collimated polarized light, the team of scientists was able to reconstruct the image by shining light through the transparent sample to observe and analyze the phase shift and interference intensity pattern, a technique known as phase - shifting interferometry (PSI).

In the new study, the scientists were on a hunt for the kind of polarized light spawned by matter in a process called gravitational lensing, where the gravitational pull from knots of matter distorts the path of light.

Species that live in open water used platelets in their silvery skin to bend polarized light, obscuring their outlines more effectively than either near - shore species or humanmade mirrors, the researchers reported last week in Science.

Existing OLEDs now in some smart phones and TVs use spaghetti - shaped polymers — chains of repeating molecular units — that emit only polarized light.

The gravitational Faraday effect, first predicted in the 1950s, theorizes that when linearly polarized light travels close to a spinning black hole, the orientation of its polarization rotates according to Einstein's theory of general relativity.

A film on the outside of each container polarizes the light passing through the ice.