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Random sudoku light

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A clever approach has been used to imprint a phase pattern on a laser beam. The pattern is not only random at each point, but also depends on information stored elsewhere in the pattern.

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Figure 1: Non-Markovian light.

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  1. Toni Eichelkraut and Alexander Szameit are at the Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Centre of Photonics, University of Jena, 07749 Jena, Germany.,

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Eichelkraut, T., Szameit, A. Random sudoku light. Nature 526, 643–644 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/526643a

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