The Grating Made of Sound

Research where one wave reads another

A research-showcase brochure led by the School of Underlying Conditions takes the acousto-optic cell, in which a sound wave travelling through a crystal steers a beam of light, as the emblem of a wider habit in the University's research: sending one wave into or across a thing and attending to what returns. Three features follow that habit from a stored grating on a basement optical bench to the hammer tap on drill core and the pulse down a monitoring bore, and out to the sensors and sirens of the street, citing eight published University outputs by title and DOI.

@misc{slop_xasktq,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Vigdis Emenike and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {The Grating Made of Sound: Research where one wave reads another},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.xasktq},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-brochure-the-grating-made-xasktq/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Brochure},
}