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Home » Optics and photonics » Nanophotonics » ‘World’s smallest photon’ confined in dielectric nanocavity

‘World’s smallest photon’ confined in dielectric nanocavity

16 Dec 2022 Isabelle Dumé
The new bowtie structure compresses light spatially. The nanostructures around it store it temporally. The result is a compression of light to the smallest scale to date
Illustration of the new bowtie structure, which can be seen in the middle of the picture. (Courtesy: DTU)
Researchers have confined light to dimensions smaller than the diffraction limit in a nanosized diel

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Isabelle Dumé is a contributing editor to Physics World
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