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Nature Photonics 2, 139 - 140 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.10

Plasmonics: Sorting colours

Niek F. van Hulst1

  1. Niek F. van Hulst is at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences and the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
    e-mail: Niek.vanHulst@ICFO.es


Subwavelength holes in metal films are well known to offer extraordinary-light-transmission properties. Now a group of scientists in France have exploited such nanoholes to sort photons by colour.


Clearly we live in a visual age. Today, pictures generated from devices such as cameras, mobile phones, computers or television dominate modern communications.

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