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March 11th, 2004

Photonics: Light arrested in forest

Abstract:
A new way to trap a light beam could prove invaluable for optical computing and quantum information processing. Mehmet Fatih Yanik and Shanhui Fan show how light can be stopped and stored using a lattice of microscopic semiconductor pillars.

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* Nature

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