It has long been known that the iridescent cuticle of many scarab beetles reflects circularly polarised light. It now turns out that scarabs can also see this light, potentially using it as a covert visual signal.

A composite chiral metamaterial (CCMM) is designed and studied both numerically and experimentally. The CCMM is constructed by the combination of a continuous metallic wires structure and a purely chiral metamaterial (CMM) that consists of conjugated Rosettes. For the CMM, only very small, useful bands of negative index can be obtained for circularly polarized waves. These bands are all above t...

Ab&act-The dispersion relation for wave propagation in a homogeneous, electrically neutral electron gas subject to crossed static electric and magnetic fields is derived using the coupled Maxwell-Boltzmann-Vlasov equations. The cutoff condition for transverse circularly polarized electromagnetic waves is obtained from the derived dispersion relation. The variation of the cutoff frequency CO,, w...

There are advantages in making the intermediate arrays of the MMA/LSA which ll the 3km plain so-called 'zoom' arrays. In such arrays the antenna pads are arranged according to a scale-free self-similar distribution. By moving antennas from inner pads to outer ones the array gradually expands keeping a self-similar uv coverage. So far two types of zoom array have been proposed, one based on a de...

Recently atomic magnetometers are one of the best tools in biomagnetic measurement such as magnetic field of brain and heart. In this paper, the technology of optically pumped atomic magnetometer based on circularly polarized light absorption pumping is described. We have been investigated a new method for measuring polarization effect in an alkali vapor based on polarized light transmission. I...

We discuss the polarization signature of primordial gravitational waves imprinted in cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. The high-energy physics motivated by superstring theory or M-theory generically yields parity violating terms, which may produce a circularly polarized gravitational wave background (GWB) during inflation. In contrast to the standard prediction of inflation with u...

The rst time simultaneous measurements of sodium column density and the absolute ux from a sodium laser guide star, created by a monochromatic 3 W cw laser, tuned to the peak of the sodium D2 hyper ne structure, were conducted at the MMT and CFA 60 inch telescope in 1997. The results show that linearly and circularly polarized laser returns are proportional to the simultaneous sodium column den...

Circularly polarized 3.5 cm continuum emission was detected toward three radio sources in the R CrA region using the Very Large Array. The Class I protostar IRS 5b persistently showed polarized radio emission with a constant helicity over 8 yr, which suggests that its magnetosphere has a stable configuration. There is a good correlation between the Stokes I and Stokes V fluxes, and the fraction...

some analysis has been presented on a circularly polarized microstrip antenna with T slot configurations in detail. Here we will design a T-slot coupled circularly polarized microstrip antenna in the frequency 1.575 GHz. The upper patch i.e. the radiating patch would be circular. There is no closed form expression so that by using that expression the dimensions of the proposed antenna could be ...

The existence of circular polarization in room-temperature protein phosphorescence is demonstrated, and time-resolved circularly polarized phosphorescence (TR-CPP) is used to characterize unique tryptophan environments in multitryptophan proteins. Circularly polarized luminescence studies provide information regarding the excited state chirality of a lumiphore which can be used to extract sensi...