Wednesday, 01 February 2023

How to confine light in air?

Reproduction of a painting by Kandinsky at the micrometer scale using optical resonances of voids inside silicon, displayed next to a human hair (image: M. Hentschel)

Reproduction of a painting by Kandinsky at the micrometer scale using optical resonances of voids inside silicon, displayed next to a human hair (image: M. Hentschel)

This question is addressed by Thomas Weiss and colleagues from the University of Stuttgart and the Australian National University in the article “Dielectric Mie voids: confining light in air,” published in Light: Science & Applications.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-022-01015-z

 

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