Light has always carried more than brightness. In this case, it also carries direction and twist. That mix may open a new ...

In this video I talk about diffraction gratings and how they work. I show you how you can use them to make diffraction ...

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A new imaging technique uncovers how electronic patterns in quantum materials evolve unevenly across space and temperature.

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A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

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