{"id":151784,"date":"2022-12-03T23:28:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T05:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-zero-index-waveguide-researchers-directly-observe-infinitely-long-wavelengths-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2022-12-03T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T05:28:14","slug":"a-zero-index-waveguide-researchers-directly-observe-infinitely-long-wavelengths-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-zero-index-waveguide-researchers-directly-observe-infinitely-long-wavelengths-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"A zero-index waveguide: Researchers directly observe infinitely long wavelengths for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-zero-index-waveguide-researchers-directly-observe-infinitely-long-wavelengths-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2017 \ud83d\ude17<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In 2015, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) developed the first on-chip metamaterial with a refractive index of zero, meaning that the phase of light could be stretched infinitely long. The metamaterial represented a new method to manipulate light and was an important step forward for integrated photonic circuits, which use light rather than electrons to perform a wide variety of functions.<\/p>\n<p>Now, SEAS researchers have pushed that technology further \u2014 developing a zero-index waveguide compatible with current silicon photonic technologies. In doing so, the team observed a physical phenomenon that is usually unobservable\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/standing+wave\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">standing wave<\/a> of light.<\/p>\n<p>The research is published in <i>ACS Photonics<\/i>. The Harvard Office of Technology Development has filed a patent application and is exploring commercialization opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2017 \ud83d\ude17 In 2015, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) developed the first on-chip metamaterial with a refractive index of zero, meaning that the phase of light could be stretched infinitely long. The metamaterial represented a new method to manipulate light and was an important step [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151784","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=151784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}