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Steering surface plasmon wakes

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The propagation direction of surface plasmon wakes can be controlled by exciting a series of dipoles with different phases along a one-dimensional metamaterial.

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Figure 1: Steering Cherenkov radiation.

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  1. Hongsheng Chen is at the State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China,

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  2. Zhaoyun Duan is at the School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China,

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  3. Min Chen is in the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,

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Chen, H., Duan, Z. & Chen, M. Steering surface plasmon wakes. Nature Nanotech 10, 736–737 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.138

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