Twisting light to enable high-capacity data transmission
Friday, December 21, 2018 - 18:00
in Physics & Chemistry
For the first time, researchers have used tiny gears made of germanium to generate a vortex of twisted light that turns around its axis of travel much like a corkscrew. Because germanium is compatible with the silicon used to make computer chips, the new light source could be used to boost the amount of data that can be transmitted with chip-based optical computing and communication.