Optical rotation, also known as polarization rotation or circular birefringence, is the rotation of the orientation of the plane of polarization about...

to be “optically active”. Specific rotation is an intensive property, distinguishing it from the more general phenomenon of optical rotation. As such...

devices such as optical isolators (through which light passes in one direction but not the other). Two gyrotropic materials with reversed rotation directions...

and fructose, made by splitting disaccharide sucrose. This mixture's optical rotation is opposite to that of the original sugar, which is why it is called...

Faraday effect or Faraday rotation, sometimes referred to as the magneto-optic Faraday effect (MOFE), is a physical magneto-optical phenomenon. The Faraday...

instrument used to measure optical rotation: the angle of rotation caused by passing linearly polarized light through an optically active substance. Some...

In stereochemistry, mutarotation is the change in optical rotation of a chiral material in a solution due to a change in proportion of the two constituent...

right-handed twist (pictured). dextro- and levo-rotation (the clockwise and counterclockwise optical rotation of plane-polarized light) uses similar notation...

have a net optical rotation. It is possible to determine the specific rotation of the mixture and, with knowledge of the specific rotation of the pure...

written using the obsolete equivalents d- and l-) is based on its optical rotation properties; and the D/L system is based on the molecule's relationship...

enantiomer of a known configuration, as indicated by the opposite sign of optical rotation, it would indicate that the absolute configuration is inverted. In...

In optics, optical rotatory dispersion is the variation of the specific rotation of a medium with respect to the wavelength of light. Usually described...

various optical properties of a material, including linear birefringence, circular birefringence (also known as optical rotation or optical rotary dispersion)...

component of the optical isolator is the Faraday rotator. The magnetic field, B {\displaystyle B} , applied to the Faraday rotator causes a rotation in the polarization...

amount of a chiral compound's optical rotation in the (+) direction is equal to the amount of its enantiomer's rotation in the (–) direction. Diastereomers...

microscope or telescopic sight. Lens elements often have rotational symmetry about the axis. The optical axis defines the path along which light propagates...

center and therefore exists as two different enantiomers with opposite optical rotation: In the D/L nomenclature, either D from Latin Dexter meaning "right"...

An optical instrument is a device that processes light waves (or photons), either to enhance an image for viewing or to analyze and determine their characteristic...

manifestations of this effect appear in optical wave plates/retarders (linear modes) and in Faraday rotation/optical rotation (circular modes). If the path length...

enantiomers are called racemic drugs and these are obviously devoid of optical rotation. The most commonly encountered stereogenic unit, that confers chirality...

Rayleigh scattering optical activity Linear dichroism Magnetic circular dichroism Optical activity Optical isomerism Optical rotation Optical rotatory dispersion...

the optical rotation of the mixture changes; this phenomenon is called mutarotation. While enantiomers have equal and opposite specific rotations, anomers...

circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, explained how optical rotation could be understood as a difference in propagation speeds for the two...

Birefringence Optic crystals Index ellipsoid Optical rotation Prism Amnon Yariv, Pochi Yeh. (2006). Photonics optical electronics in modern communications (6th...

Pfeiffer effect is an optical phenomenon whereby the presence of an optically active compound influences the optical rotation of a racemic mixture of...

other higher plants exhibits a positive optical rotation of +42.73°. The other enantiomer (optical rotation −42.73°) is found in small amounts in certain...

indices nα, nβ and nγ. Thus there is no axis around which a rotation leaves the optical properties invariant (as there is with uniaxial crystals whose...

in optical rotation on nitro-d-camphor with time and invented the term mutarotational to describe this phenomenon. He studied changes in optical rotation...

circular dichroism Optical activity Optical isomerism Optical rotation Optical rotatory dispersion Hyper Rayleigh Scattering Optical Activity Two-photon...

consist of three pairs of points located on the optical axis of a rotationally symmetric, focal, optical system. These are the focal points, the principal...