A light beam with a corkscrew-shaped wave front can encode information based on the tightness and direction of the helix. This “twisted light” has potential uses in optical telecommunications and computing, but it is difficult to direct such light within chip-based photonic circuitry. A team in China has now demonstrated an optical waveguide that can carry twisted light efficiently on a chip and even “purify” its quantum state in the process.
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