In the article they come up with ideas of what they could do with this new knowledge of Light. But think about what the Creator does with it---things we may not even be able to imagine as it helps unify the universe under His Laws of Physics....Let there be light... Genesis 1:3
"Waves propagating through a weak disordered potential with
correlation length larger than the wavelength produce surprisingly long narrow filaments, or branches.
Instead of producing completely random speckle patterns, the slowly varying disordered potential gives rise to focused filaments that divide to form a pattern resembling the branches of a tree.
This phenomenon is called branched flow.
They discovered that when light propagates within the soap film, rather than being scattered, the light forms elongated branches, creating the branched flow phenomenon for light.
“There is nothing more exciting than discovering something new and this is the first demonstration of this phenomenon with light waves,” added co-author Professor Uri Sivan.
“Now, with this observation we can think of a plethora of new ideas,” said senior co-author Professor Mordechai Segev.
“For example,
---using these light branches to control the fluidic flow in liquid,
---or to combine the soap with fluorescent material and cause the branches to become little lasers.
---Or to use the soap membranes as a platform for exploring fundamentals of waves, such as the transitions from ordinary scattering which is always diffusive, to branched flow, and subsequently to Anderson localization.
There are many ways to continue this pioneering study.
As we did many times in the past, we would like to boldly go where no one has gone before.”
SciNews
"Waves propagating through a weak disordered potential with
Instead of producing completely random speckle patterns, the slowly varying disordered potential gives rise to focused filaments that divide to form a pattern resembling the branches of a tree.
This phenomenon is called branched flow.
They discovered that when light propagates within the soap film, rather than being scattered, the light forms elongated branches, creating the branched flow phenomenon for light.
“There is nothing more exciting than discovering something new and this is the first demonstration of this phenomenon with light waves,” added co-author Professor Uri Sivan.
“Now, with this observation we can think of a plethora of new ideas,” said senior co-author Professor Mordechai Segev.
“For example,
---using these light branches to control the fluidic flow in liquid,
---or to combine the soap with fluorescent material and cause the branches to become little lasers.
---Or to use the soap membranes as a platform for exploring fundamentals of waves, such as the transitions from ordinary scattering which is always diffusive, to branched flow, and subsequently to Anderson localization.
There are many ways to continue this pioneering study.
As we did many times in the past, we would like to boldly go where no one has gone before.”
SciNews