We introduce an interferometric interpretation for the degree of polarization as a quantity characterizing the ability of a light beam to generate polarization modulation when it interferes with itself. The result is confirmed experimentally in Youngʼs interferometer with beams of controlled degree of polarization and by comparing to a standard polarimetric measurement. The new interpretation i...

Polarization of light, and visual sensitivity to it, is pervasive across aquatic and terrestrial environments. Documentation of invertebrate use of polarized light is widespread from navigation and foraging to species recognition. However, studies demonstrating that polarization body patterning serves as a communication signal (e.g., with evidence of changes in receiver behavior) are rare among...

Using nonresonant bond-polarization theory, the Raman intensity of a single-wall carbon nanotube is calculated as a function of the polarization of light and the chirality of the carbon nanotube. The force-constant tensor for calculating phonon dispersion relations in the nanotubes is scaled from those for two-dimensional graphite. The calculated Raman spectra do not depend much on the chiralit...

The polarization of the light emitted by an ultraviolet light-emitting diode (LED) has a direct impact on device performance: transverse electric emission is preferred for extraction from surface grown along c axis. While this case most UV LEDs AlN, state events could be called into question when tunnel junction (TJ) added to make up poor p doping in Al-rich (Al,Ga)N and improve hole injection....

The polarization dependence of the optical properties of individual subwavelength holes in a thin metallic film is studied using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. We show that for parallel polarization of the incident light, the coupling is predominantly to short-range bonding film plasmons while for perpendicular polarization the incident light couples more efficiently to long-range antibond...

There is a growing interest in producing intense, coherent x-ray radiation with an adjustable and arbitrary polarization state. In this paper, we study the crossed undulator scheme for rapid polarization control in a self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) free electron laser (FEL). Because a SASE source is a temporally chaotic light, we perform a statistical analysis on the state of polariz...

We study the angular structure of polarization of light transmitted through a nematic liquid crystal NLC cell by analyzing the polarization state as a function of the incidence angles and the polarization of the incident wave. The polarization-resolved angular conoscopic patterns emerging after the NLC cell illuminated by the convergent light beam are described in terms of the polarization sing...