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Nature Photonics 1, 616 - 618 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2007.211
Light and motion: Cavities learn to adapt
Mihaela Dinu1
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Mihaela Dinu is at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Laboratories, 791 Holmdel-Keyport Road, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733, USA.
e-mail: mdinu@alcatel-lucent.com
Abstract
When tiny optical cavities are coupled together on the nanoscale, optical forces can dominate. A new proposal from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides a way of harnessing these forces, leading to microcavities that can mechanically adapt their geometry.
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