{"id":187959,"date":"2024-04-23T12:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T17:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/study-shows-ultra-thin-two-dimensional-materials-can-rotate-the-polarization-of-visible-light"},"modified":"2024-04-23T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T17:23:34","slug":"study-shows-ultra-thin-two-dimensional-materials-can-rotate-the-polarization-of-visible-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/study-shows-ultra-thin-two-dimensional-materials-can-rotate-the-polarization-of-visible-light","title":{"rendered":"Study shows ultra-thin two-dimensional materials can rotate the polarization of visible light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-shows-ultra-thin-two-dimensional-materials-can-rotate-the-polarization-of-visible-light3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been known for centuries that light exhibits wave-like behavior in certain situations. Some materials are able to rotate the polarization, i.e. the direction of oscillation, of the light wave when the light passes through the material. This property is utilized in a central component of optical communication networks known as an \u201coptical isolator\u201d or \u201coptical diode.\u201d This component allows light to propagate in one direction but blocks all light in the other direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been known for centuries that light exhibits wave-like behavior in certain situations. Some materials are able to rotate the polarization, i.e. the direction of oscillation, of the light wave when the light passes through the material. This property is utilized in a central component of optical communication networks known as an \u201coptical isolator\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}