ETCHNEW 2016:from CUSAT campus.
Demonstrating setup for showing how a material could be made invisible Light is a form of wonder to all ages. Writers had written a lot about it, poets had sung numerous poems about it, scientists had tirelessly worked to explore about it. From Plank to Einstein, the definitions about it had made a new area to search about, for generations of students to come. Recently I had a chance to visit ETCHNEW 2016, THE OPTICS FAIR held in International School Of Photonics, CUSAT.there was an exhibition about how lasers can be applied to several technologies.Here I would share some items which amazed me in terms of its variety and technological innovation. Data Transfer Via light (not WI-FI But LI-FI) Demonstrator had two laptops at a distance and an equipment on which a small LED bulb is mounted. When we type something on one laptop, we can see a simultaneous blinking of LED bulb and appearance of same letter on the other laptop which is assisted by a photo detector. CLOAKI...