Thursday, November 9, 2017

A strange new world of light

11/09/2017 09:38 PM EST

swirling vortices of light

Structured beams of light, which exhibit strange behavior such as bending in a spiral, corkscrewing and dividing like a fork, not only can tell scientists a lot about the physics of light but also have a wide range of applications from super-resolution imaging to molecular manipulation and communications. Now, Harvard researchers have developed a tool to generate more complex structured light in a completely different way.


Full story at https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2017/11/strange-new-world-of-light

Source
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences


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