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spinoptics en · NOUN

Etymology

From spin + optics.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The optics of elliptically-polarized light
    • The topics covered range from the basics of the thermodynamics of light emission and absorption, to applications in solar-thermal energy generation, thermophotovoltaics, optical refrigeration, personalized cooling technologies, development of coherent incandescent light sources, and spinoptics.. 2016, Svetlana V. Boriskina, Jonathan K. Tong, Wei-Chun Hsu, Bolin Liao, Yi Huang, Vazrik Chiloyan, Gang Chen, “Heat meets light on the nanoscale”, in arXiv: