RECENT work on optical rotatory power has directed attention to the importance of the phenomena which were observed in certain coloured tartrates by Cotton in 1896, namely: a maximum ellipticity ...
The creation of the bulge would have added to equatorial ellipticity, resulting in the planet's triaxial shape. It also would have made the planet more prone to volcanic activity, leading to the ...
In the resulting patterns the right- and left-hand circular polarization components of the light field tend to separate in space. The pattern selection depends crucially on the polarization ...