Scientists of the University of California in Berkeley have designed a new system to compress the light bundle so that it is possible to express with a much more powerful control and that it opens new doors for the technologies of optical communications, lasers in miniature and computers with this type of components.
In Physorg they tell that up to the date the maximum thing that the experts in this field had achieved was to make to spend a light bundle for a groove of scarcely 200 nanómetros of width, or what is the same, 400 times less of the thickness of a human hair.
Nevertheless, the achievement of the group of investigators of Berkeley led by the teacher Xiang Zhang goes further away, and allows to confine the light in incredibly small spaces of only 10 nanómetros, that are only five times the size of a chain of ADN and 100 times narrower than the current optical fibre cables.
Finished news | The light, compressed to the maximum (The Inquirer ES)
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