A key research goal has been to obtain such modes with high purity and the ability to select the handedness of the OAM, in a system with robust potential for power scaling. These modes have potential in this field due to their increasing mode steepness with azimuthal phase and their potential for carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). The aim here is thus to weave various threads together into an (un)natural history of a modern material, one that considers epistemology, technology, and ontology-or, more specifically, the changing requirements and functions of glassware in the modern laboratory, the invention of specifically adapted glass substances, and the parallel advancement of glass science and its theories of what glass actually is.We have explored several methods of generating Laguerre-Gaussian doughnut modes with the eventual application of laser processing directing our research. Starting from the assumption that modern laboratory research depends on containers that regulate the spatial, material, and epistemic enclosure of its experimental milieus and objects, this essay argues that the standardization of glass quality from the 1900s to the 1930s must be understood as a reconfiguration of a “marginal” but nonetheless constitutive element of modern laboratory environments. It had become apparent by 1900 that glass, a supposedly neutral and inert material, not only interacted with its environment but also interfered with anything it contained-chemically, physically, and biologically.
At the turn of the twentieth century, so-called “glass diseases” seriously affected the use of scientific and technical glassware.
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