ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Over the past decades, modern photonics has evolved from a niche activity to a field of utmost scientific and economic importance. Strikingly, photonic devices ranging from lenses and fibres to complex machines such as lasers and microscopes rely almost exclusively on tailored interactions of light with solid matter. This fundamental principle imposes constraints, limiting e.g. the wavelength range of photonic devices due to absorption and the optical power due to damage. In a ground-breaking effort, we recently opened up an entirely new route to transfer photonic methods from solids to the gas phase: using intense ultrasound (sono) waves, gases can be tailored to enable light control.…
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