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This topic has appeared in the English Wikipedia rankings 1 time. It first appeared on 2026-07-04 and was most recently seen on 2026-07-04.
Wikipedia Overview
Optical rotation, also known as polarization rotation or circular birefringence, is the rotation of the orientation of the plane of polarization about the optical axis of linearly polarized light as it travels through certain materials. Circular birefringence and circular dichroism are the manifestations of optical activity. Optical activity occurs only in chiral materials, those lacking microscopic mirror symmetry. Unlike other sources of birefringence which alter a beam's state of polarization, optical activity can be observed in fluids. This can include gases or solutions of chiral molecules such as sugars, molecules with helical secondary structure such as some proteins, and also chiral liquid crystals. It can also be observed in chiral solids such as certain crystals with a rotation between adjacent crystal planes or metamaterials.
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Achiral crystal reveals Raman optical activity through ferroaxial order - Phys.org
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Electronic localization and optical activity of strain-engineered transition-metal dichalcogenide nanobubbles - Nature
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Consequences of Mechanical Bonding on the Optical Activity of Cyclo[18]carbon Rings - Gustafson - 2026 - Chirality - Wiley Online Library
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Optical Activity in Achiral Crystals: Challenging a Fundamental Principle - t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Spin-dependent optical activity of the telecom range ClV center in SiC: a wavefunction theory analysis - Nature
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Ferroaxial-Order-Induced Raman Optical Activity (IMAGE) - EurekAlert!
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Electric field control of natural optical activity in a multiferroic helimagnet - Science | AAAS
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Recognition of the True and False Resonance Raman Optical Activity - Wiley Online Library
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Natural optical activity as the origin of the large chiroptical properties in π-conjugated polymer thin films - Nature
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All-dielectric chiral-field-enhanced Raman optical activity - Nature
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Wide-field spectroscopic imaging of optical activity - Nature
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Dispersive optical activity for spectro-polarimetric imaging - Nature
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Chirality conferral enables the observation of hyper-Raman optical activity - Nature
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Giant nonlinear optical activity in two-dimensional palladium diselenide - Nature
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Dual-comb optical activity spectroscopy for the analysis of vibrational optical activity induced by external magnetic field - Nature
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Colossal infrared and terahertz magneto-optical activity in a two-dimensional Dirac material - Nature
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Giant intrinsic chiro-optical activity in planar dielectric nanostructures | Light: Science & Applications - Nature
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Giant nonlinear optical activity in a plasmonic metamaterial - Nature
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Influence of Geometrical Parameters on the Optical Activity of Chiral Gold Nanorods - Wiley & Sons
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Enhanced gyrotropic birefringence and natural optical activity on electromagnon resonance in a helimagnet - Nature
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High resolution spectral metrology leveraging topologically enhanced optical activity in fibers - Nature
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Nondispersive optical activity of meshed helical metamaterials - Nature
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Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules - Nature
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Chiral perturbation on single benzene-based fluorophores: A structure/(chir)optical activity relationship study - Wiley Online Library
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Organization of Carotenoid Aggregates in Membranes Studied Selectively using Resonance Raman Optical Activity - Wiley Online Library
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Dynamic chiral magnetic effect and anisotropic natural optical activity of tilted Weyl semimetals - Nature
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Photo-induced optical activity in phase-change memory materials - Nature
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Conformal metasurface-coated dielectric waveguides for highly confined broadband optical activity with simultaneous low-visibility and reduced crosstalk - Nature
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Magneto-Optical Activity in High Index Dielectric Nanoantennas - Nature
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Two Spectroscopies in One: Interference of Circular Dichroism and Raman Optical Activity - Wiley Online Library
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Facile Construction of Soft Plasmonic Sensors with Exceptional Optical Activity for Quantitative Chiral Detection - Wiley Online Library
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Intense Optical Activity from Three‐Dimensional Chiral Ordering of Plasmonic Nanoantennas - Wiley Online Library
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Femtosecond characterization of vibrational optical activity of chiral molecules - Nature
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Simultaneous Detection of Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Raman Optical Activity in an Organic Molecular Lemniscate - Wiley Online Library
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Chiral Seeded Growth of Gold Nanorods Into Fourfold Twisted Nanoparticles with Plasmonic Optical Activity - Wiley & Sons
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Synthesis of chiral TiO2 nanofibre with electron transition-based optical activity - Nature
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Giant Optical Activity of Quantum Dots, Rods and Disks with Screw Dislocations - Nature
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Remotely excited Raman optical activity using chiral plasmon propagation in Ag nanowires - Nature
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Giant Optical Activity and Second Harmonic Generation in 2D Hybrid Copper Halides - Wiley Online Library
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nanoparticles for the removal of ciprofloxacin and Congo red from water - Nature
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Breaking metamaterial symmetry with reflected light - AIP Publishing LLC
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Variations in the Optical Activity of L‐Arginine in Electrolyte and Nonelectrolyte Solutions - Shin - 2025 - Chirality - Wiley Online Library
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Realizing efficient asymmetric transmission using optical activity of ultrathin chiral metasurfaces for K-band applications - Wiley Online Library
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Self-Assembly of Chiral Nanoparticle Pyramids with Strong R/S Optical Activity - ACS Publications
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Surfactant Directed Synthesis of Intrinsically Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures and Precise Tuning of their Optical Activity through Controlled Self‐Assembly - Maniappan - 2023 - Angewandte Chemie International Edition - Wiley Online Library
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Physicists use light to probe deeper into the ‘invisible’ energy states of molecules - University of Bath
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Nontrivial band geometry in an optically active system - Nature
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Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Activity Induced by Ordered Dipolar Chromophores Confined in the Pores of an Anionic Metal–Organic Framework - Wiley Online Library
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The Electrogyration Effect - Optics & Photonics News
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World's 1st short-wavelength Raman optical activity spectrometer developed in Dalian - Xinhua | English.news.cn - 新华网
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Intense Optical Activity from Three-Dimensional Chiral Ordering of Plasmonic Nanoantennas - Wiley Online Library
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Microscopic origin of the chiroptical response of optical media - Science | AAAS
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Coherent control of optical polarization effects in metamaterials - Nature
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Dual-polarity metamaterial circular polarizer based on giant extrinsic chirality - Nature
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World's 1st short-wavelength Raman optical activity spectrometer developed in Dalian(6/7) - Ecns.cn
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World's 1st short-wavelength Raman optical activity spectrometer developed in Dalian(3/7) - Ecns.cn
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as Molecular Gelators: Self-Assembled Fibrillar Nanostructures with Enhanced Optical Activity - Wiley Online Library
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