{"id":721975,"date":"2022-04-21T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721975"},"modified":"2022-04-21T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:18:10","slug":"unexpected-light-behavior-may-be-harnessed-to-improve-optical-communications-and-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721975","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected light behavior may be harnessed to improve optical communications and sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shine a flashlight into a murky pond water and the beam won&#8217;t penetrate very far.  Absorption and scattering rapidly diminishes the intensity of the light beam, which loses a fixed percentage of energy per unit distance traveled. That decline\u2014known as exponential decay\u2014holds true for light traveling through any fluid or solid that readily absorbs and scatters electromagnetic energy.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-04-unexpected-behavior-harnessed-optical-sensors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Unexpected light behavior may be harnessed to improve optical communications and sensors<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shine a flashlight into a murky pond water and the beam won&#8217;t penetrate very far. Absorption and scattering rapidly diminishes the intensity of the light beam, which loses a fixed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}