{"id":92616,"date":"2019-06-24T17:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/how-to-bend-waves-to-arrive-at-the-right-place"},"modified":"2019-06-24T17:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:22:24","slug":"how-to-bend-waves-to-arrive-at-the-right-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/how-to-bend-waves-to-arrive-at-the-right-place","title":{"rendered":"How to bend waves to arrive at the right place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-bend-waves-to-arrive-at-the-right-place3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Waves do not always spread uniformly into all directions, but can form a remarkable \u201cbranched flow.\u201d At TU Wien (Vienna) a method has now been developed to control this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/free+space\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">free space<\/a>, the light wave of a laser beam propagates on a perfectly straight line. Under certain circumstances, however, the behavior of a wave can be much more complicated. In the presence of a disordered, irregular environment a very strange phenomenon occurs: An incoming wave splits into several paths, it branches in a complicated way, reaching some places with high intensity, while avoiding others almost completely.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of \u201cbranched flow\u201d has first been observed in 2001. Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) have now developed a method to exploit this effect. The core idea of this new approach is to send a wave signal exclusively along one single pre-selected <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/branch\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">branch<\/a>, such that the wave is hardly noticeable anywhere else. The results have now been published in the journal <i>PNAS<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waves do not always spread uniformly into all directions, but can form a remarkable \u201cbranched flow.\u201d At TU Wien (Vienna) a method has now been developed to control this phenomenon. In free space, the light wave of a laser beam propagates on a perfectly straight line. Under certain circumstances, however, the behavior of a wave [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92616","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}