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Scientists Create “Optical Tornadoes” That Twist Light Into a Swirling Vortex

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Scientists Create “Optical Tornadoes” That Twist Light Into a Swirling Vortex
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Researchers generated stable vortex light in its lowest-energy state using liquid crystal traps and optical confinement. Can light spin like a miniature tornado? Researchers have now shown that it can. Teams from the University of Warsaw, the Military University of Technology, and Institut Pascal CNRS at Université Clermont Auvergne have created so-called optical tornadoes inside [...]

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