{"id":131471,"date":"2021-11-29T20:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/mobius-strip-microlasers-for-non-euclidean-photonics-applications"},"modified":"2021-11-29T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:22:47","slug":"mobius-strip-microlasers-for-non-euclidean-photonics-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/mobius-strip-microlasers-for-non-euclidean-photonics-applications","title":{"rendered":"M\u00f6bius strip microlasers for non-Euclidean photonics applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mobius-strip-microlasers-for-non-euclidean-photonics-applications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photonics is a branch of technology development that specializes in the creation of devices that can generate, detect or manipulate light. Recently, researchers at Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay coined a new term for a new photonics sub-field called non-Euclidean photonics.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, the team introduced new devices that could be used as a test bed for non-Euclidean photonics. These devices are microlasers in which the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+cavity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser cavity<\/a> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/curved+surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">curved surface<\/a>. In particular, they investigated one-sided, non-orientable surfaces known as M\u00f6bius strips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur project started 10 years ago with the Ph.D. thesis of Clement Lafargue,\u201d Melanie Lebental, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Phys.org. \u201cAt the time, we had <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pre\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevE.83.036208\">good expertise on 2D polymer-based microlasers and their use as quantum chaos platforms<\/a>. We wanted to explore the third dimension, because we expected a lot of different features and a broad variety of dynamical behaviors, particularly regarding the symmetry classes of the laser modes and their polarization features.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photonics is a branch of technology development that specializes in the creation of devices that can generate, detect or manipulate light. Recently, researchers at Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay coined a new term for a new photonics sub-field called non-Euclidean photonics. In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, the team introduced new devices that could be used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131471","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}