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Nature Physics 2, 225 - 226 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys278

Subject Categories: Optical physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics | Nanotechnology

Optics: Anomalous physics pulled apart

Ross C. McPhedran1

  1. Ross C. McPhedran is at the CUDOS ARC Centre of Excellence, School of Physics, University of Sydney, 2006, Australia. e-mail: ross@physics.usyd.edu.au


For more than a hundred years, optical physicists have been fascinated by the effects that can arise when light interacts anomalously with diffraction gratings. A new experimental study shows how nanofabrication and diagnostic techniques can pull apart the physics behind the so-called anomalies.

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