Optics: Against the spread of the light

Kishan Dholakia

doi:10.1038/451413a

Optics: Against the spread of the light

Kishan Dholakia

Department of Physics

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Abstract

Light that propagates without spreading or diffracting sounds like a theorist's pipedream. But it is a very real proposition, and could be used to illuminate some profound aspects of wave-particle duality.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	413
Number of pages	1
Journal	Nature
Volume	451
Issue number	7177
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/451413a
Publication status	Published - 2008 Jan 24

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