Photonic lattices are materials specially designed to cage light. By shaking the mesh of the cage, we can see how light, initially passing freely, finds its room for manoeuvre progressively restricted.
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Vardeny, Z., Raikh, M. Light localized on the lattice. Nature 446, 37–38 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/446037a
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