Light can tie knots—literally. Engineers at Duke University have managed to manipulate laser beams to form intricate 3D patterns called optical knots, using custom-designed optics. These twisted beams ...

Physics meets art: A new twist on interference patterns. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 17, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250327141754.htm ...

Knots are generally understood to form due to twists and turns of long, flexible materials that keep shoes on your feet or ...

When light waves reflect off these mirrors, the difference in path length leads to interference patterns that depend on the layer’s thickness and the wavelength of the light. To visualize this ...

In the interview, Tommaso Faleo explains how interference patterns of more than two photons can be interpreted. Your group at the Department of Experimental Physics has just published a new ...

A team of researchers in Switzerland, Germany and the US has observed clear evidence of quantum mechanical interference ...

Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, discover brand new one-dimensional diffraction patterns in two-dimensional nanomaterials, with exciting implications ...

By overlapping several laser beams with specific properties and directing them through a series of lenses, interference patterns can form a stationary "optical knot" that looks something like a ...

Researchers discovered brand new interference patterns in twisted two-dimensional tungsten ditelluride lattices. These patterns can be tuned to look like periodic spots or even one-dimensional bands ...