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Nature Photonics 2, 137 - 138 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.12
Terahertz: The art of confinement
Jaime Gómez Rivas1
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Jaime Gómez Rivas is at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), and his group is stationed in the Philips Research Laboratories, High-Tech Campus 4, 5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
e-mail: j.gomez-rivas@amolf.nl
Abstract
By structuring the surface of a metal with an array of holes, photonics researchers show that it is possible to tightly confine terahertz surface waves, reducing their decay length into air by two orders of magnitude. The results could lead to new approaches to waveguiding.
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