{"id":102867,"date":"2020-02-25T21:05:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/researchers-create-new-state-of-light"},"modified":"2020-02-25T21:05:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:05:46","slug":"researchers-create-new-state-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/researchers-create-new-state-of-light","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create new state of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-new-state-of-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 20 years, researchers have studied how light rotates around a longitudinal axis parallel to the direction light travels. But could it move in other ways? After two years of research, and thanks to a sabbatical, University of Dayton researchers Andy Chong and Qiwen Zhan became the first to create a new \u201cstate of light\u201d\u2014showing it also can rotate around a transverse axis perpendicular to the direction light travels, like a cyclone.<\/p>\n<p><i>Nature Photonics<\/i>, an international publisher of top-quality, peer-reviewed research of light generation, manipulation and detection, published their findings Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sabbatical allowed us the time to fully concentrate on this research and was very instrumental in putting us in a position to make this discovery,\u201d Chong said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 20 years, researchers have studied how light rotates around a longitudinal axis parallel to the direction light travels. But could it move in other ways? After two years of research, and thanks to a sabbatical, University of Dayton researchers Andy Chong and Qiwen Zhan became the first to create a new \u201cstate of light\u201d\u2014showing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}