Self-Organizing ‘Pencil Beam’ Laser Could Help Scientists Design Brain-Targeted Therapies
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Under the right conditions, a chaotic mess of laser light can spontaneously self-organize into a highly focused “pencil beam.” This schematic shows the pencil-beam formation mechanism. Image courtesy of the researchers
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that’s faster and higher-resolution than existing technology.