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Guiding Light with Long-Range Plasmons
Long-range surface plasmons are characterized by unique electromagnetic properties that could reshape our vision of integrated optical circuits and other chip-scale photonic applications.
Over the past 40 years, the field of integrated optics has become an extremely rich and complex branch of optical engineering, with applications ranging from biosensing and biodiagnostics to signal processing and other communications applications. The great strength of integrated optical circuits is that all elements are conveniently built into the same compact substrate; thus, chips offer great flexibility along with an intrinsic resistance to optical misalignment and user-induced errors.
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