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IMAGE: A scattering-invariant mode of light is generated by sending a laser beam onto a judiciously configured spatial light modulator (see quadratic pixel array on the left). This modulated beam then. view more
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Why is sugar not transparent? Because light that penetrates a piece of sugar is scattered, altered and deflected in a highly complicated way. However, as a research team from TU Wien (Vienna) and Utrecht University (Netherlands) has now been able to show, there is a class of very special light waves for which this does not apply: for any specific disordered medium such as the sugar cube you may just have put in your coffee tailor-made light beams can be constructed that are practically not changed by this medium, but only attenuated. The light beam penetrates the medium, and a light pattern arrives on the other side that has the same shape as if the medium were not there at all.
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On March 18, at 15:00, an online discussion “Academic Spaces of Future Universities,” dedicated to the 135th anniversary of St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI,” will take place. Proposal of such discussion was made by St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University and supported by the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in St. Petersburg and Nuffic Neso, the Netherlands Education Support Office.
During the discussion, experts from Russia, Netherlands, Italy, and Finland will discuss the effective use of public and educational spaces and creating a comfortable, inclusive, and motivating environment in the universities established in the 19th – 20th centuries.
“This year, LETI turns 135 years old. The university opens new laboratories and centers and develops the external and internal, as well as digital environment. All universities established more than 100 years ago face the efficiency challenge. Clearly realizing that the environment i