Feature
Winners of 2016 Photo Contest
Judges: Svetlana Boriskina, Mihaela Dinu, Alexandre Fong, Bob D. Guenther, Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, Nick Lambert, Arlene Smith, Stephen R. Wilk
Congratulations to the winners of OPN’s 11th annual After Image photo contest.
“Acoustic waves spectrally modulate supercontinuum light inside an acousto-optic tunable filter. The supercontinuum light interacts with resonating acoustic modes to produce four-lobed orange, green and rainbow Schaefer-Bergmann diffraction patterns around the two spectrally modulated beams and undiffracted light. These optical patterns can quantitatively measure acoustic properties of crystals.”
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Publish Date: 01 December 2016