Published the list of winners of the V Photo Contest “Día de la Luz”

On the occasion of the celebration on May 16 of the International Day of Light, the list of winners of the V “Day of Light” Photographic Contest organized by the Master’s Degree in Physics and Technology of Lasers (USAL – UVA) has been published. These  entities and organizations also collaborate:

• the ATTOSTRUCTURA project (funded by the European Innovation Council in the framework of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research program on innovation under the grant agreement ERC 851201).
• the Salamanca Local Section of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics.
• the Spanish Society of Optics SEDOPTICA.
• the magazine Óptica Pura y Aplicada.
• the University Association OSAL Student Chapter.
• the Supernova University Association.  
• the Physics League University Association.

The complete verdict can be read on the website of the Master’s Degree in Physics and Technology of Lasers.

Below we include the 4 award-winning photographs.

1st Category: Light Technologies and Optical Phenomena.

• • First prize for the photograph entitled “Levitation: the magic of planet Earth” taken by D. Adrián de la Fuente Ballesteros.

Description: The image represents a hologram of planet Earth generated with a mobile phone and a piece of methacrylate in the shape of an inverted pyramid. It is a three-dimensional photograph that constitutes an optical duplicate of an object and allows it to be observed from different viewing angles.

• • Second prize for the photograph entitled “A celestial reflection” taken by Ms. María Flores Ceballos.

Description: The image shows the well-known painting “The Sky of Salamanca” and its reflection created with the help of a CD, which acts as a small flat mirror. In this way, the painting apparently forms a complete circle.

2nd Category: The Laser.

• • First prize for the photograph entitled “Flúor Tonic” taken by Ms. Blanca Durán Salvador.

Description: Image where fluorescence is observed when we hit the tonic with a violet laser, comparing it with a green laser for which this phenomenon does not occur.

• • Second prize for the photograph entitled “Conducting the Light” taken by Mr. Mario Guerras Rodríguez.

Description: We trap laser light in a flow of water that forms a parabola towards the ground. The total reflection effect appears and the light cannot leave the water until it reaches the ground, as if it were a fiber optic cable.