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I can't speak on the subject, but I just want to say I really enjoyed the Star-Trek-esque language (: Here, we introduce optical rotatum, a behavior of light
by interroboink 1y ago
I can't speak on the subject, but I just want to say I really enjoyed the Star-Trek-esque language (:
Here, we introduce optical rotatum, a behavior of light in which
an optical vortex beam experiences a quadratic chirp in its orbital
angular momentum along the optical path. We show that such an adiabatic
deformation of topology is associated with the accumulation of a Gouy
phase factor, which, in turn, perturbs the propagation constant (spatial
frequency) of the beam.
"Captain, if we can't reduce the adiabadic deformation of the Gouy phase factor, we'll never escape this optical vortex beam!"
- smrt 1y agolol
- countWSS 1y agoTry reading any advanced math papers on Arxiv and you'll be amazed how simple and clear physics papers are.
- bee_rider 1y agoI don’t understand any hard math concepts, but usually they are either: * Somebody’s name or, * Exactly what they say on the tin Right? The language of physics has some false-friends in English.
- hansvm 1y agoYeah, the math problem is the other direction -- a thousand things being named after one guy, or a thousand things being named after the simplest English word which could possibly apply.
- xeonmc 1y agoStill better than computing where everything new thing is named after a generic household item that makes it completely impossible to disambiguate while searching.
- xeonmc 1y agoMissed opportunity to call it a Rotato instead.