The World's Fastest Nanoscale Photonics Switch (IMAGE)

Lomonosov Moscow State University

The World's Fastest Nanoscale Photonics Switch

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"Device" is a disc 250 nm in diameter that is capable of switching optical pulses at femtosecond rates (femtosecond is a one millionth of one billionth of a second).

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Maxim Scherbakov et al

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