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Photonic crystals go dynamic

Nature Materials volume 6, pages 799–800 (2007)Cite this article

Photonic crystal resonators present unique properties for confining light in volumes much smaller than the wavelength. The ultrafast dynamic change of these properties is an important step towards the complete control of light.

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Figure 1: Working principle of the system.

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  1. Jorge Bravo-Abad and Marin Soljačić are in the Physics Department and the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. jbravo@mit.edu; soljacic@mit.edu,

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Bravo-Abad, J., Soljačić, M. Photonic crystals go dynamic. Nature Mater 6, 799–800 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2036

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