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Nanoscale Waveguide for Future Photonics
May 31, 2011
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Lawrence Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated the first true nanoscale waveguides for next-generation on-chip optical communication systems. The waveguides are based on a quasi-particle the researchers conceptualized and created called the "hybrid plasmon polariton."
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DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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