Image of Week: Scatterguiding
Light can propagate as a true waveguiding mode through diffusive materials, such as fog, tissue and resin (pictured). This is analogous to optical fibers, except the mechanism is diffusion using a contrast of scattering parameters to create localization.
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—Kevin J. Mitchell, University of Glasgow, UK
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