Optical components made of air: Gas-based sono-photonics as a new platform technology

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  • uploaded April 17, 2025

Using ultrasound to produce optical gratings from layers of air of different densities to control light - this has been achieved by the DESY Ultrafast Photonics research group together with TU Darmstadt and the ultrasound device manufacturer Inson GmbH. The project was supported by Hi-Acts and funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung with 750,000 €.

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Categories: Photon Science
Date of recording: 2025-04-17
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Christoph Heyl