{"id":3921528,"date":"2025-08-19T15:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ultra-thin-materials-twist-light-into-optical-vortices-for-faster-data-transmission\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:03:18","slug":"ultra-thin-materials-twist-light-into-optical-vortices-for-faster-data-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ultra-thin-materials-twist-light-into-optical-vortices-for-faster-data-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-thin materials twist light into optical vortices for faster data transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Imagine a whirlpool spinning in a river, or a tornado swirling through the sky. They don&#8217;t just spin on the spot: they travel forward while maintaining that spiraling motion inside them. These twisting motions, called vortices, are powerful and organized spirals. Now, imagine light that behaves the same way: a beam of light that spins as it moves forward. This &#8220;twisted&#8221; light, known as an optical vortex, can carry more information than normal light, opening the door to faster internet and ultra-secure communications.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-08-ultra-thin-materials-optical-vortices.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a whirlpool spinning in a river, or a tornado swirling through the sky. They don&#8217;t just spin on the spot: they travel forward while maintaining that spiraling motion inside them. These twisting motions, called vortices, are powerful and organized spirals. Now, imagine light that behaves the same way: a beam of light that spins [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}