Nanometer-Scale Optical Whispering Galleries (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Nanometer-Scale Optical Whispering Galleries

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This is an artist's representation of glass beads of slightly different diameters (denoted by different colors) in the nanoresonator coating. Each bead acts as an optical whispering gallery, or resonator, for a slightly different wavelength of sunlight.

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K. Dill, D. Ha/NIST

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