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Sci-Fi Holograms: Highest Quality Holographic Images Ever Achieved

Australian National University physicists have invented a tiny device that they say creates the highest quality holographic images ever achieved - opening the door to imaging technologies seen in science fiction movies such as Star Wars. Holograms perform very complex manipulations of light, and enable the storing and reproduction of all information carried by light in 3D. In contrast, standard computer monitors capture and display only a portion of 2D information. The new device, which is comprised of millions of tiny silicon pillars, could replace bulky components to miniaturize cameras and save costs in space missions by reducing the size and weight of optical systems on spacecraft.

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    00:00:00 we've recently been working on uh new types of artificial materials that we structure at the nanana scale our latest development is a material which consists of millions of tiny silicon n pillars each individual pillar is up to 500 times thinner than a human hair our any materials perform uh interesting operations with the light that um shines onto them and recently created Holograms

    00:00:23 with these materials you might be familiar with them from Star Wars movies essentially we're working on same physical principles that once inspired uh science fiction writers essentially Holograms are devices that perform by far the most complex manipulations with light in in particular they're able to capture and then reproduce uh the whole information that light carries in full

    00:00:45 three dimensions if you compare them to Conventional photographs or computer monitors then those reproduce only a portion of information of light basically just the intensity of light and in two Dimensions only can you see the top projection if you think of those conventional Optical components like lenses and prisms then these are bulky and and heavy weight and

    00:01:07 essentially uh to make these components we use technologies that haven't been changing for centuries but without a new material we can create um components with the same functionality but that would be essentially flat and lightweight and this brings so many applications starting from further shrinking down the sizes of cameras in in consumer smartphones and all the way

    00:01:28 up to space Technologies uh by reducing the uh size and weight of complex Optical systems for satellites photonics in 21st century is playing an important role uh just like the electronics in 20th century and uh we are currently having many changes and using this uh holographic principle uh it is the ultimate solution to M uh photonic problems and the IT application is only

    00:01:56 limited to your imagination