Laser-Induced Fluid Flow
Lasers can do many things, including pushing particles and trapping them. Theoretical physicists from the University of Chicago predicted that lasers also can influence fluid flow. Together with experimentalists from the University of Bordeaux I in Talence, France, they have shown that a laser can produce a jet stream in a liquid solution.
The investigators designed the liquid solution to separate into two layers above 35 °C, just above room temperature, so that they could easily observe...
Photonics Spectra, May 2007