Breaking symmetry to excite polaritons. (IMAGE)

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS

Breaking symmetry to excite polaritons.

Caption

An optical disk-antenna on the crystal surface provides an in-plane polarized excitation source for breaking the symmetry of hyperbolic polaritons.

Credit

China University of Geosciences / Lu Liu

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