{"id":3927274,"date":"2026-07-31T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-photonic-platform-offers-a-four-lane-highway-for-light\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:02:44","slug":"new-photonic-platform-offers-a-four-lane-highway-for-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-photonic-platform-offers-a-four-lane-highway-for-light\/","title":{"rendered":"New photonic platform offers a four-lane highway for light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Topological photonics can force propagating light to travel in a single direction\u2014allowing researchers to route optical signals around corners and past defects without any of it scattering backward. So far, however, this one-way flow has only been found at the boundary between two specially engineered &#8220;topological insulator&#8221; regions, leaving most of the material unavailable for light transport.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-photonic-platform-lane-highway.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topological photonics can force propagating light to travel in a single direction\u2014allowing researchers to route optical signals around corners and past defects without any of it scattering backward. So far, however, this one-way flow has only been found at the boundary between two specially engineered &#8220;topological insulator&#8221; regions, leaving most of the material unavailable for [&#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-3927274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}