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Nature 446, 37-38 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446037a; Published online 28 February 2007

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Photonics: Light localized on the lattice

Z. Valy Vardeny1 & Mikhail Raikh1

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Photonic lattices are materials specially designed to cage light. By shaking the mesh of the cage, we can see how light, initially passing freely, finds its room for manoeuvre progressively restricted.

Unchecked, light's stamina as a messenger is unsurpassed. In outer space, with no scattering medium, it travels for billions of years and allows us to glimpse deep into the Universe's antiquity.

  1. Z. Valy Vardeny and Mikhail Raikh are in the Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.
    Email: val@physics.utah.edu; Email: raikh@physics.utah.edu

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