{"id":4272,"date":"2009-11-30T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2009-11-30T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T08:00:26","slug":"troubles-melt-like-lemon-drops-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4272","title":{"rendered":"Troubles Melt like Lemon Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18205-rainbow-trapped-for-the-first-time.html\">Rainbow trapped for the first time<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2007, Ortwin Hess of the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, and colleagues proposed a technique to trap light inside a tapering waveguide, which is a structure that guides light waves down its length. The waveguide in question would use metamaterials \u2013 exotic materials that can bend light sharply.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that as the waveguide tapers, the components of the light are made to stop in turn at ever narrower points. That&#8217;s because any given component of the light cannot pass through an opening that&#8217;s smaller than its wavelength. This leads to a &#8220;trapped rainbow&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainbow trapped for the first time In 2007, Ortwin Hess of the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, and colleagues proposed a technique to trap light inside a tapering waveguide, which is a structure that guides light waves down its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}