{"id":220681,"date":"2025-08-22T08:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/photonic-origami-folds-glass-into-microscopic-3d-optical-devices"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:31:36","slug":"photonic-origami-folds-glass-into-microscopic-3d-optical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/photonic-origami-folds-glass-into-microscopic-3d-optical-devices","title":{"rendered":"Photonic origami folds glass into microscopic 3D optical devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photonic-origami-folds-glass-into-microscopic-3d-optical-devices3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a technique to fold glass sheets into microscopic 3D photonic structures directly on a chip\u2014a process they call photonic origami. The method could enable tiny, yet complex optical devices for data processing, sensing and experimental physics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExisting 3D printers produce rough 3D structures that aren\u2019t optically uniform and thus can\u2019t be used for high-performance optics,\u201d said research team leader Tal Carmon from Tel Aviv University in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMimicking the way a pinecone\u2019s scales bend outward to release seeds, our laser-induced technique triggers precise bending in ultra-thin glass sheets and can be used to create highly transparent, ultra-smooth 3D microphotonic devices for a variety of applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a technique to fold glass sheets into microscopic 3D photonic structures directly on a chip\u2014a process they call photonic origami. The method could enable tiny, yet complex optical devices for data processing, sensing and experimental physics. \u201cExisting 3D printers produce rough 3D structures that aren\u2019t optically uniform and thus can\u2019t be used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220681","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=220681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}