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For more than a hundred years, optical physicists have been fascinated by the effects that can arise when light interacts anomalously with diffraction gratings. A new experimental study


shows how nanofabrication and diagnostic techniques can pull apart the physics behind the so-called anomalies. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of


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