{"id":204073,"date":"2025-01-19T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/twisted-edison-filaments-curling-at-the-nanoscale-produce-light-waves-that-twirl-as-they-travel"},"modified":"2025-01-19T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:30:14","slug":"twisted-edison-filaments-curling-at-the-nanoscale-produce-light-waves-that-twirl-as-they-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/twisted-edison-filaments-curling-at-the-nanoscale-produce-light-waves-that-twirl-as-they-travel","title":{"rendered":"Twisted Edison: Filaments Curling at the Nanoscale Produce Light Waves that Twirl as they Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/twisted-edison-filaments-curling-at-the-nanoscale-produce-light-waves-that-twirl-as-they-travel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers at the University of Michigan have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for robotic vision systems and other applications for light that traces out a helix in space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to generate enough brightness when producing twisted light with traditional ways like electron or photon luminescence,\u201d said Jun Lu, an adjunct research investigator in chemical engineering at U-M and first author of the study on the cover of this week\u2019s Science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe gradually noticed that we actually have a very old way to generate these photons\u2014not relying on photon and electron excitations, but like the bulb Edison developed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers at the University of Michigan have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for robotic vision systems and other applications for light that traces out a helix in space. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to generate enough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,219,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204073","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}