Imagine a clock where the colors aren’t from LEDs but a physics phenomenon – polarization. That’s just what [Mosivers], a physicist and electronics enthusiast, has done with the Polarizer Clo… ...

A weird thing happens to polarized light if you place a second polarizer oriented at a right angle to the first. That light vanishes. Okay, it doesn't vanish as much as it gets blocked.

That is another case in which half the photons will get through a polarizer, and, as always, those that do so become polarized parallel with the polarizer. You can see how polarizers work by ...

A new way of generating linearly polarized photons using quantum dots has been developed by an international team of researchers. The photons are emitted from a quantum dot at the top of a ...

This converts the horizontally polarized light leaving polarizer P2 into vertically polarized light ready to enter vertical polarizer P1. Finally, the light passes through P1, and appears as a ...

Even in singly polarized light, some minerals betray their identity. In the image above, the brown mineral is hornblende. Most of the other minerals are white (clear), but hornblende is one of the few ...

If you take two crossed polarizers (for example, a horizontal and vertical one), no light will get through them. Yet when you insert a third polarizer between the two, oriented diagonally, then ...

IntroductionLight corn syrup is used to rotate the plane of polarized light on the stage of an overhead projector.A polarizing filter allows only those photons with electric fields oscillating in a ...

Linearly polarized light restricts visibility to specific angles. ... of the polarizer, which contains iodine-infused Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA), a polarizing absorption layer.