Thanks to a new technique developed at EPFL, optical diffraction gratings can now be made out of pure diamond, with their surfaces smoothed down to the very last atom. These new devices can be used to alter the wavelength of high-powered lasers or in cutting-edge spectrographs. Niels Quack, a SNSF-funded professor at the School of Engineering.
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- Themes
- Research and Tech Transfer , STI, Research and Tech Transfer, Materials Science
- Copyright
- EPFL - Murielle Gerber
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- CC0 Licence
- Shooting date
- Sept. 4, 2017
- Album
- Carving diamonds for optical components
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