Putting photons in jail
Date | 14th, Feb 2019 |
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Source | Nanowerk - Nanotechnology Websites |
DESCRIPTION
Scientists have discovered a novel type of resonant nanocavity that serves as a 'jail for photons'. The cavity confines light in all three dimensions (3D) simultaneously by exploiting a surrounding photonic band gap crystal nanostructure as the 3D jail's bars.