Synthetic Magnetism Used to Control Light

[Tenet Nosce]

Synthetic Magnetism Used to Control Light: Opens Door to Nanoscale Applications That Use Light Instead of Electricity

The process breaks a key law of physics known as the time-reversal symmetry of light and could yield an entirely new class of devices that use light instead of electricity for applications ranging from accelerators and microscopes to speedier on-chip communications.

[turtledude23]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[Parsons]

Stanford researchers in physics and engineering have demonstrated a device that produces a synthetic magnetism to exert virtual force on photons similar to the effect of magnets on electrons. The advance could yield a new class of nanoscale applications that use light instead of electricity.

This has more applications than they realize considering everything in the physical universe is made up of photons.

[Karl]

This will be exciting, assuming it does surface.

[Ens Entium]

Did anyone else think of this a new way to create holograms when they read this??

This is so cool!