Mid- and far-infrared birefringent crystals are key functional materials for polarization control, laser technologies, and ...

Researchers find gravitational lensing has significant effect on cosmic birefringence. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 29, 2026 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 11 / 231102135148.htm ...

A team of researchers studying the uncertainties associated with a phenomenon known as cosmic birefringence has developed a method to reduce uncertainties in its observational measurements, according ...

With this method, doctors around the world can easily, rapidly and reliably detect malaria, Ebola or HIV to name only a few. Nothing could be simpler: a drop of blood is placed on a special carrier ...

Over the past decades, researchers have demonstrated conventional solitons, stretched pulses, self-similar pulses, and dissipative solitons by managing the dispersion and nonlinearity of fiber lasers.

Optical polymers have recently been applied to lenses, optical disks, functional films for liquid-crystal displays and various other optical devices because of their ease of processing, lightweight ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 260, No. 1302 (Mar. 7, 1961), pp. 370-378 (10 pages) Single crystals of cadmium selenide have been grown ...

Stimuli-sensitive materials can respond to physical forces with structural phase transitions. This also applies to biopolymer-surfactant mixtures, a study by German and Chinese scientists now reports.

According to quantum electrodynamics (QED) - a quantum theory that describes how light and matter interact - it’s predicted that space is actually full of 'virtual particles' that pop in and out of ...

This news release is available in German. Nothing could be simpler: a drop of blood is placed on a special carrier substance; after a wait of a few minutes, the slide is placed on a device that emits ...

ETH researchers led by Raffaele Mezzenga have developed a new diagnostic method. It is based on Birefringence, the ability of substances to change the polarisation state of light. With this method, ...