Researchers find gravitational lensing has significant effect on cosmic birefringence. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 13, 2026 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 11 / 231102135148.htm ...

Mid- and far-infrared birefringent crystals are key functional materials for polarization control, laser technologies, and infrared photonics. However, existing materials generally suffer from limited ...

Over the past decades, researchers have demonstrated conventional solitons, stretched pulses, self-similar pulses, and dissipative solitons by managing the dispersion and nonlinearity of fiber lasers.

With this method, doctors around the world can easily, rapidly and reliably detect malaria, Ebola or HIV to name only a few. Nothing could be simpler: a drop of blood is placed on a special carrier ...

Vacuum birefringence is a weird quantum phenomenon that has only ever been observed on an atomic scale. It occurs when a neutron star is surrounded by a magnetic field so intense, it’s given rise to a ...

Optical polymers have recently been applied to lenses, optical disks, functional films for liquid-crystal displays and various other optical devices because of their ease of processing, lightweight ...

A weird quantum effect may have just been observed for the first time in the polarised light of empty space around neutron star. The effect, known as vacuum birefringence, was first predicted by ...

This news release is available in German. Nothing could be simpler: a drop of blood is placed on a special carrier substance; after a wait of a few minutes, the slide is placed on a device that emits ...

ETH researchers led by Raffaele Mezzenga have developed a new diagnostic method. It is based on Birefringence, the ability of substances to change the polarisation state of light. With this method, ...