Thinnest optical waveguide channels light within just three layers of atoms

Science Daily  August 12, 2019
A team of researchers in the US (UC San Diego, City University of New York, Johns Hopkins University) present an experimental demonstration of light guiding in an atomically thick tungsten disulfide membrane patterned as a photonic crystal structure. In this scheme, two-dimensional tungsten disulfide excitonic photoluminescence couples into quasi-guided photonic crystal modes known as resonant-type Wood’s anomalies. These modes propagate via total internal reflection with only a small portion of the light diffracted to the far field. Such light guiding at the ultimate limit provides more possibilities to miniaturize optoelectronic devices and to test fundamental physical concepts…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICCLE 

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