A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have presented a method for interpreting the interactions between materials and polarized light, which may facilitate advancements in biomedical imaging and ...

Light can carry angular momentum in two distinct ways. One comes from polarization, which describes how the electric field ...

Researchers have produced a record-thin optical quarter-waveplate from the two-dimensional material niobium oxychloride ...