And the team has produced
vortex beams, light beams that resemble a corkscrew, that could help communications companies transmit more data over limited bandwidth.
Uchida welcomes the alternative method for generating
a vortex beam.
«An electron
vortex beam could manipulate nanomaterials just a few atoms thick,» says Verbeeck, which would help efforts to build ever - smaller electronic chips.
The most immediate application of
the vortex beam will be to measure the magnetic properties of nanoparticles.
Not exact matches
Simulations show that energy builds up in the
vortex for around 10 trillionths of a second before it breaks free in a coherent
beam of light, just like a laser (Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038 / ncomms5972).
SET a
beam of electrons twisting, and the resulting
vortex could be just the tool to manipulate atoms.
Optical physicists have been using spiraling laser
beams, in which light waves are twisted into
vortices, for almost 30 years, says Jo Verbeeck, a materials scientist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and first author on the Nature paper.
That is the claim being made by a group of scientists in Italy and Sweden, who have shown how a radio
beam can be twisted, and the resulting
vortex detected with distant antennas.
But if a
beam is twisted, then the wavefront rotates around the
beam's direction of propagation in a spiral, creating a
vortex and leaving the
beam with zero intensity at its centre.
Researchers have developed a new type of organic
vortex laser, which is a laser that emits a helical
beam of light.
The Great
Vortex is a giant swirling sky -
beam that sits in the heart of the High Elf nation.
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Diamond
vortexes connect the terrestrial to the beyond in
beams of energy and morph them into abstraction.