{"id":168821,"date":"2023-08-01T08:23:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/photonic-chip-transforms-single-beam-of-light-into-multiple-beams-each-with-a-panoply-of-different-properties"},"modified":"2023-08-01T08:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:23:29","slug":"photonic-chip-transforms-single-beam-of-light-into-multiple-beams-each-with-a-panoply-of-different-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/photonic-chip-transforms-single-beam-of-light-into-multiple-beams-each-with-a-panoply-of-different-properties","title":{"rendered":"Photonic chip transforms single beam of light into multiple beams, each with a panoply of different properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photonic-chip-transforms-single-beam-of-light-into-multiple-beams-each-with-a-panoply-of-different-properties3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a photonic circuit on a chip that transforms a single incoming beam of laser light into a panoply of new beams, each with a host of different optical properties.<\/p>\n<p>The newly generated beams\u2014which retain the frequency of the original beam\u2014simultaneously exit the circuit at different locations along the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chip\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chip<\/a>. That allows scientists and engineers to select the specific characteristics of one or more beams needed for a particular application.<\/p>\n<p>Precision shaping and controlling beams of visible light are critical for diagnosing and studying human diseases, trapping atoms that form the basis of the world\u2019s most <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/accurate+clocks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">accurate clocks<\/a>, quantum computing, and many other quantum-based technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a photonic circuit on a chip that transforms a single incoming beam of laser light into a panoply of new beams, each with a host of different optical properties. The newly generated beams\u2014which retain the frequency of the original beam\u2014simultaneously exit the circuit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168821","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}