Laser writing setup (IMAGE)

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Laser writing setup

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Researchers embedded a liquid crystal layer into a waveguide that was created with direct laser writing (pictured). The resulting hybrid device can be used to change the polarization of light traveling through the waveguide.

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GRK 2101, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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