This looks like it might be awesome work. My only complaint is that, once again, physicists have been unable to resist the sexy-but-misleading metaphors when c

This looks like it might be awesome work. My only complaint is that, once again, physicists have been unable to resist the sexy-but-misleading metaphors when coining popular names. Calling this refractive index perturbation a "desktop black hole" is perhaps even worse than the previous grand champion of popular confusion, "quantum teleportation". Thousands of hours are going to be wasted explaining to laypeople that, no, these things are not tiny black holes and they will not pull in increasing amounts of matter, Katamari style, until they consume your local college campus and begin to threaten your entire state. I miss Murray Gell-Mann's naming schemes. The beauty of the word quark is that it wasn't already taken by some other thing. Or could we go back to acronyms? MACHOs and WIMPs were hilarious.