Photon polarization is the quantum mechanical description of the classical polarized sinusoidal plane electromagnetic wave. An individual photon can be...

inventors and year of publication, was originally described using photon polarization states to transmit the information. However, any two pairs of conjugate...

called photons. When viewed in this way, the polarization of an electromagnetic wave is determined by a quantum mechanical property of photons called...

universe is about 1.38×1010 years. In a vacuum, a photon has two possible polarization states. The photon is the gauge boson for electromagnetism,: 29–30 ...

direction is known as polarization. On a quantum level, it is described as photon polarization. The direction of the polarization is defined as the direction...

world. Virtual photons are thought of as fluctuations in the electromagnetic field, characterized by their energy, momentum, and polarization. These fluctuations...

with the quantum spin and the rotation between the polarization degrees of freedom of the photon. Spin is the fundamental property that distinguishes...

two-photon absorption (TPA or 2PA), also called two-photon excitation or non-linear absorption, is the simultaneous absorption of two photons of identical...

circular polarization) is much less likely. Observationally, the linear polarization fraction p ~ 0.015 from a single scattering; circular polarization from...

particles Polarization function, a feature of some molecular modelling methods Photon polarization, the mathematical link between wave polarization and spin...

polarization. As a result of this, different types of SPDC are categorized by the polarizations of the input photon (pump) and the two output photons...

referred to as the self-energy of the gauge boson (photon). It is analogous to the electric polarization of dielectric materials, but in vacuum without the...

circular polarization of electromagnetic fields is due to spin polarization of their constituent photons. In the most generic context, spin polarization is...

Cetonia aurata) is elliptical polarized. Ellipsometry Fresnel rhomb Photon polarization Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions of the electromagnetic wave equation...

spin down; or the polarization of a single photon in which the two spin states (left-handed and the right-handed circular polarization) can also be measured...

obtained by combining three gray-scaled images which usually interpret the polarization of electromagnetic waves. The combination R-G-B = HH-HV-VV combines radar...

Diffraction from slits Dual-polarization interferometry Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester N-slit interferometer Matter wave Photon polarization Quantum coherence Schrödinger's...

relativistic specie left is the photon. Observation of these primordial photons is meant to reveal the two polarization patterns E and B modes which help...

In 1946, John Archibald Wheeler suggested studying the polarization of pairs of gamma-ray photons produced by electron–positron annihilation. Chien-Shiung...

electromagnetic wave equation Polarization Circular polarization Elliptical polarization Plane of polarization Photon polarization Jackson, John D. (1998)....

Electromagnetic spectrum Optics Special relativity General relativity Inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation Photon polarization Larmor power formula...

In electrodynamics, circular polarization of an electromagnetic wave is a polarization state in which, at each point, the electromagnetic field of the...

photons are scattered by free electrons (Thomson scattering) induces polarization anisotropies on large angular scales. This broad angle polarization...

P(A{\text{ to }}B)} , and it depends on only the momentum and polarization of the photon. The similar quantity for an electron moving from C {\displaystyle...

Bell test, using photon pairs produced by positronium decay and analyzed by Compton scattering. The experiment observed photon polarization correlations consistent...

that the photon is a composite particle formed of a neutrino–antineutrino pair. It is based on the idea that emission and absorption of a photon corresponds...

field. Bolometer Color temperature Draper point Infrared thermometer Photon polarization Planck's law Pyrometer Rayleigh–Jeans law Sakuma–Hattori equation...

emitted per (solid angle in photon velocity space * photon frequency), summed over both transverse photon polarizations. We express it as an approximate...

verification of quantum electrodynamics. Photon spin is associated with the polarization of light (photon polarization). An emerging application of spin is...

series of isolated two-state quantum systems. For example, photons in one of four polarizations could be used: at 0°, 45°, 90° and 135° to some axis, which...