Light reflects as a vortex off a metamaterial with unusual optical properties
Nature, Published online: 28 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01624-9Metamaterials made of magnetic photonic crystals have been generated and tuned to a theoretically predicted transition point at which peculiar optical properties emerge. For example, when light is shone on a slab of the material, some of it is reflected back as a spatio-temporal vortex.
Nature, Published online: 28 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01624-9Metamaterials made of magnetic photonic crystals have been generated and tuned to a theoretically predicted transition point at which peculiar optical properties emerge. For example, when light is shone on a slab of the material, some of it is reflected back as a spatio-temporal vortex.
