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Plasmonics

Sorting colours

Nature Photonics volume 2, pages 139–140 (2008)Cite this article

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. And we often take it for granted that those pictures are rendered in full colour, which we can distinguish thanks to the colour receptors (cones) in our eyes.

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Figure 1: Plasmonic colour sorting.
Figure 2: Plasmonic nano-art.

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  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. Niek.vanHulst@ICFO.es,

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