Curving Light
25 December 2007, 20:05
Categories: optics--photonics
A new optics experiment by researchers at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, makes a light beam appear to bend in air. The brightest patch of the beam also appears to travel with almost no spreading, unlike ordinary laser beams. The so-called Airy beam may lead to new kinds of optical engineering. The Airy waveform was described theoretically nearly 30 years ago as a surprising solution to the quantum equation for a free particle, a problem with a mathematical analogy in optics.
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