optical polarization

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• Optical rotation — (optical activity) is the turning of the plane of linearly polarized light about the direction of motion as the light travels through certain materials. It occurs in solutions of chiral molecules such as sucrose (sugar), solids with rotated… …   Wikipedia

• Polarization — ( Brit. polarisation) is a property of waves that describes the orientation of their oscillations. For transverse waves, it describes the orientation of the oscillations in the plane perpendicular to the wave s direction of travel. Longitudinal… …   Wikipedia

• Polarization mode dispersion — (PMD) is a form of modal dispersion where two different polarizations of light in a waveguide, which normally travel at the same speed, travel at different speeds due to random imperfections and asymmetries, causing random spreading of optical… …   Wikipedia

• Optical tweezers — (originally called single beam gradient force trap ) are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to provide an attractive or repulsive force (typically on the order of piconewtons), depending on the refractive index mismatch… …   Wikipedia

• Optical molasses — Schematic Optical molasses is a laser cooling technique that can cool down neutral atoms to temperatures colder than a magneto optical trap (MOT). An optical molasses consists of 3 pairs of counter propagating circularly polarized laser beams… …   Wikipedia

• Optical axis grating — Optical axis gratings (OAGs) are gratings of optical axis of a birefringent material. In OAGs, the birefringence of the material is constant, while the direction of optical axis is periodically modulated in a fixed direction. In this way they are …   Wikipedia

• Optical axis gratings — (OAGs) are gratings of optical axis of a birefringent material. In OAGs, the birefringence of the material is constant, while the direction of optical axis is periodically modulated in a fixed direction. In this way they are different from the… …   Wikipedia

• Optical pumping — of a laser rod (bottom) with an arc lamp (top). Red: hot. Blue: cold. Green: light. Non green arrows: water flow. Solid colors: metal. Light colors: fused quartz. Refs: [1], [2] …   Wikipedia

• Optical phase space — Optical phase diagram of a coherent state s distribution across phase space. In quantum optics, an optical phase space is a phase space in which all quantum states of an optical system are described. Each point in the optical phase space… …   Wikipedia

• optical activity — n ability of a chemical substance to rotate the plane of vibration of polarized light to the right or left * * * the property possessed by some substances of rotating the plane of polarization of polarized light. A compound that rotates the plane …   Medical dictionary

• Optical rotatory dispersion — is the variation in the optical rotation of a substance with a change in the wavelength of light. Optical rotatory dispersion can be used to find the absolute configuration of metal complexes. For example, when plane polarized white light from an …   Wikipedia