{"id":213042,"date":"2025-05-02T01:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/sound-controlled-light-paves-way-for-gps-free-navigation"},"modified":"2025-05-02T01:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:12:33","slug":"sound-controlled-light-paves-way-for-gps-free-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/sound-controlled-light-paves-way-for-gps-free-navigation","title":{"rendered":"Sound-controlled light paves way for GPS-free navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sound-controlled-light-paves-way-for-gps-free-navigation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine having to find your way with only a compass and the stars and being handed a GPS. This is what David Marpaung and colleagues have just done for designers of light-based chips. Through their discovery of steering light with sound, the UT researchers have made available a powerful new tool to expand the scope and performance of this up-and-coming technology that\u2019s quickly moving beyond its traditional use in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/low-power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">low-power<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+communication\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical communication<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.adv4022\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Science Advances<\/i><\/a>, Marpaung has essentially molded the precision and versatility of a well-known physical phenomenon called Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) into a form that\u2019s ready for mass manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine having to find your way with only a compass and the stars and being handed a GPS. This is what David Marpaung and colleagues have just done for designers of light-based chips. Through their discovery of steering light with sound, the UT researchers have made available a powerful new tool to expand the scope [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213042","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=213042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}