Re: photon sieve

> I notice that the caption describes a photon seive as containing
> "tens of thousands of pinholes." This does not sound like a very
> easy device to produce.
>
> Mike Vande Bunt

    My guess is that you would write a computer program to generate a large
    original and then photo-reduce it in the same manner that we make
    zone plates. What I'm trying to figure out is if the paper in Nature
    magazine has enough information to allow me to generate the pattern.
    One of the web references indicates that the photon sieve is patented,
    so there may be more information in the patent filing, if I can find
    it.
Received on Wed Feb 6 09:06:38 2002