An electromagnetic wave or signal traveling from “here” to “there” has an electrostatic field component that we call its E-field and whose direction we assign as the signal’s polarity. Often, the ...

Most biomolecules are chiral. Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is typically used to provide information about that chirality. But the data for mixtures of biomolecules can be difficult to ...

So I've been familiar with the basics of polarization since forever, but I recently realized circular polarization is a mystery to me. I've heard of it in conjunction with eg satellite broadcasts, but ...

For anisotropic crystals, it has been known for many years that the birefringence effect rising from anisotropic refractive index should be considered for angle-resolved polarized Raman (ARPR) ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 297, No. 1448, A Discussion on Circular Dichroism-Electronic and Structural Principles (Feb. 27, 1967), pp ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Mar., 1972), pp. 769-772 (4 pages) The circular polarization of fluorescence is related to the ...

Technologies that rely on interactions between matter and polarized light usually stick to the well-understood effects of linear or circular polarization. Researchers at Rice University in the US have ...