Tag: extraordinary optical transmission

• Holey metal, Batman!

  Metal tends to be opaque. However, if you perforate it with small holes in a certain pattern, it will still transmit some light—even if the holes are smaller than the wavelength of the light! This is known as extraordinary optical transmission (EOT), which has found uses in a number of devices since its discovery in…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 19, 2012

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  extraordinary optical transmission, optics, quasiparticles