Vortex Laser on a Chip (IMAGE)

University at Buffalo

Vortex Laser on a Chip

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The image above shows vortex laser on a chip. Because the laser beam travels in a corkscrew pattern, encoding information into different vortex twists, it's able to carry 10 times or more the amount of information than that of conventional lasers.

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University at Buffalo

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