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3-D Knotted Optical Traps Created

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NEW YORK, March 22, 2011 — A new technique creates extended and knotted 3-D optical traps that produce “bright” knots. The maximum of the light intensity traces out a knotted trajectory in space, allowing microscopic objects to be trapped along the path of the knot. Discovered by physicists at New York University, the new method could enable fusion energy to become a practical power source, said the team. Optical traps can be used to confine and manipulate small objects — ranging in size from a few nanometers to several hundred micrometers — in 3-D. They work because variations in...Read full article

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    Published: March 2011
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