They also knew that circularly polarized light is composed of transverse waves. Transverse waves are perpendicular to the direction the light is moving and can be used to control the particle's ...

Polarization is one of the fundamental yet fascinating properties of transverse waves, as light waves, gravitational waves, and sound waves in solids, i.e. it plays an important part in optics, ...

Fig. 1. (a) THz optical path diagram based on metasurface. By controlling the phase delays of LCP and RCP waves by unit cells, metasurface can transmit the LCP and RCP components of the incident ...

A research team at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has discovered a new type of sound wave: the airborne sound wave vibrates transversely and carries both rotation and orbital angular momentum ...

A new and quicker way of modulating the polarization of light pulses has been unveiled by researchers in the UK. The technique uses a second laser pulse to control polarization and could be used in a ...