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Nature Photonics 2, 524–525 (1 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.165

Plasmonics: A sharper approach

Claire Gmachl

Many people imagine laser beams to be highly focused beams of light. Little do they realize that lasers — especially semiconductor lasers — tend to spread their light over tens of degrees or more.