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Lattice surface plasmons enable large-area unidirectional emission of coherent light generated at deep subwavelength scales.

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Figure 1: Origin of directional emission.

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  1. Jorge Bravo-Abad and Francisco J. García-Vidal are at the Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada and Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain,

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Bravo-Abad, J., García-Vidal, F. A sense of direction. Nature Nanotech 8, 479–480 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2013.123

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