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All-optical computers and ultrafast optical communications could be enabled by a new theory that combines slow light with metamaterials. Trapped rainbow. Metamaterial. Ortwin Hess with his colleagues from the Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey.

Different wavelengths of light would be trapped at different points within this material for a "trapped rainbow" effect.

Image Credit: Boris Starosta

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