{"id":245652,"date":"2026-10-19T22:52:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/a-new-way-to-detect-stabilizing-properties-of-optical-devices"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:52:57","slug":"a-new-way-to-detect-stabilizing-properties-of-optical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/a-new-way-to-detect-stabilizing-properties-of-optical-devices","title":{"rendered":"A new way to detect stabilizing properties of optical devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-way-to-detect-stabilizing-properties-of-optical-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In optical fibers, chips and other light-guiding devices, minor defects can scatter photons and disrupt their path. A new study demonstrates a way to reveal properties which, in certain systems, help light wave behavior withstand such flaws. The method could help speed up the search for new kinds of electronics and optical technologies, and contribute to more reliable quantum devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/xkht-64kc\" target=\"_blank\">Reporting in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>, researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology demonstrate a programmable chip that can detect and measure \u201ctopological properties,\u201d or features of wave behavior that don\u2019t change even when a system is altered.<\/p>\n<p>KTH Associate Professor Ali Elshaari says understanding these properties can help devices keep working despite imperfections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In optical fibers, chips and other light-guiding devices, minor defects can scatter photons and disrupt their path. A new study demonstrates a way to reveal properties which, in certain systems, help light wave behavior withstand such flaws. The method could help speed up the search for new kinds of electronics and optical technologies, and contribute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245652","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=245652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}