Pingie: HTTP:: 039 One Way 039 Road for Light Created at MIT

HTTP:: 039 One Way 039 Road for Light Created at MIT
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The reason why we are able to see objects around us is because photons traveling through the atmosphere readily bounce off obstacles in their path. Some of them enter our eyes, and leave their impressions on the retina, which then transforms the data in electrical impulses and sends them to the brain, for analysis and conversion. Now, MIT experts have put a dent in the way light usually moves, by creating a type of microwave light that can flow losslessly around objects and other obstacles. Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently announced that they have managed to create the innovative type of light that could be used in the not-so-distant future to create simple, one-way light connections inside computers, allowing them to work faster and more efficiently. In nature, light is permitted to travel both ways. If a beam is shone on an object, then its reflection will travel backwards, along the same path, PhysOrg reports. “The very fac!
t that reflected beams are allowed to exist, combined with the fact that light at least partially reflects from most objects it encounters, makes optical reflections ubiquitous in nature,” the senior author of a study detailing the find, MIT Physics Professor Marin Soljacic, explains. He conducted the research alongside MIT col...
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