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Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

Figure 1

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Two slabs of boron nitride crystals are dynamically twisted with respect to each other. At certain angles, the incoming laser light (orange beam) can be efficiently converted to higher energy light (pink beam), as a result of micromechanical symmetry breaking.

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Nathan R.Finney and Sanghoon Chae/Columbia Engineering

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