We’ve all played at least once with a spring toy, but did you know that light can be shaped like a spring too?
An international team of researchers, led by Marco Piccardo, a former researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and now a Professor in the Physics Department of Técnico Lisboa and Principal Investigator at the Engineering Institute for Microsystems and Nanotechnologies (INESC MN), has harnessed ultrafast optics and structured light to synthesize in the laboratory a new family of spatiotemporal light beams, known as light springs.
The research was done in collaboration between IIT, Politecnico di Milano and Téc...
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