{"id":170271,"date":"2023-08-23T09:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/university-of-chicago-scientists-invent-smallest-known-way-to-guide-light"},"modified":"2023-08-23T09:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T14:22:54","slug":"university-of-chicago-scientists-invent-smallest-known-way-to-guide-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/university-of-chicago-scientists-invent-smallest-known-way-to-guide-light","title":{"rendered":"University of Chicago scientists invent smallest known way to guide light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/university-of-chicago-scientists-invent-smallest-known-way-to-guide-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through a series of innovative experiments, he and his team found that a sheet of glass crystal just a few atoms thick could trap and carry light. Not only that, but it was surprisingly efficient and could travel relatively long distances\u2014up to a centimeter, which is very far in the world of light-based computing.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published Aug. 10 in Science, demonstrates what are essentially 2D photonic circuits, and could open paths to new technology.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2D optical waveguides could point way to new technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a series of innovative experiments, he and his team found that a sheet of glass crystal just a few atoms thick could trap and carry light. Not only that, but it was surprisingly efficient and could travel relatively long distances\u2014up to a centimeter, which is very far in the world of light-based computing. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170271","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}