I know what you're thinking after you read that title: If the wavelength is infinitely long, isn't it a line rather than a wave?
In 2015, researchers, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) developed the first on-chip metamaterial with a refractive index of zero, meaning that the phase of light could be stretched infinitely long. The metamaterial represented a new method to manipulate light and was an important step forward for integrated photonic circuits, which use light rather than electrons to perform a wide variety of functions.
Now, SEAS researchers have pushed that technology further - developing a zero-index waveguide compatible with current silicon photonic technologies. In doing so, the team observed a physical phenomenon that is usually unobservable—a standing wave of light.
The research is published in ACS Photonics.
There's a lot more in the full story about the difficulties of proving the wavelength is infinite and what can be down with this new material with a refractive index of 0.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @02:03AM (1 child)
Are you sure you're qualified to make such a statement?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday October 11 2017, @04:04AM
We have been over this before, AC. Perhaps you missed the Protocols of Soylentil Grammar Nazis? Everyone who criticizes the grammar mistakes in a post must include one or two (or more) mistakes in the critical post. We are gods with feet of clay.