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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McPhedran, R. Anomalous physics pulled apart. Nature Phys 2, 225–226 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys278
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