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Probing hyperbolic polaritons

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Hyperbolic phonon polaritons confined to the subdiffraction limit exhibit encouragingly long lifetimes and group velocities as slow as 0.002c. Researchers use a time-resolved set-up sensitive to nanometre-scale optical fields to shed light on the exciting optical properties of hyperbolic materials.

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Figure 1: Time-domain scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy of h-BN in the mid-infrared.

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  1. Joshua D. Caldwell, Igor Vurgaftman and Joseph G. Tischler are at the US Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave, S.W., Washington DC 20375, USA,

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Caldwell, J., Vurgaftman, I. & Tischler, J. Probing hyperbolic polaritons. Nature Photon 9, 638–640 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.183

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