http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaritonics
I admit I did not know about this new field of science. Here is the paper that the article was based on http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.7390.pdf *Creation of Orbital Angular Momentum States with Chiral Polaritonic Lenses* . On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Roarty, Francis X < [email protected]> wrote: > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141117093336.htm > > > > *Summary:* > > Physicists have engineered a spiral laser beam and used it to create a > whirlpool of hybrid light-matter particles called polaritons, hybrid > particles that have properties of both matter and light and could link > electronics with photonics. > > >
