{"id":221071,"date":"2025-08-28T03:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/tiny-hologram-inside-a-fiber-lets-scientists-control-light-with-incredible-precision"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:05:16","slug":"tiny-hologram-inside-a-fiber-lets-scientists-control-light-with-incredible-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/tiny-hologram-inside-a-fiber-lets-scientists-control-light-with-incredible-precision","title":{"rendered":"Tiny hologram inside a fiber lets scientists control light with incredible precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-hologram-inside-a-fiber-lets-scientists-control-light-with-incredible-precision.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Germany have unveiled the Metafiber, a breakthrough device that allows ultra-precise, rapid, and compact control of light focus directly within an optical fiber. Unlike traditional systems that rely on bulky moving parts, the Metafiber uses a tiny 3D nanoprinted hologram on a dual-core fiber to steer light by adjusting power between its cores. This enables seamless, continuous focus shifts over microns with excellent beam quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Germany have unveiled the Metafiber, a breakthrough device that allows ultra-precise, rapid, and compact control of light focus directly within an optical fiber. Unlike traditional systems that rely on bulky moving parts, the Metafiber uses a tiny 3D nanoprinted hologram on a dual-core fiber to steer light by adjusting power between its cores. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1497,1923],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-energy","category-holograms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221071","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=221071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}