waveguide
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waveguide (plural waveguides)
- A structure which guides waves, such as electromagnetic waves, light, or sound waves.
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a structure which guides waves
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waveguide (third-person singular simple present waveguides, present participle waveguiding, simple past and past participle waveguided)
- To act as a waveguide for
- 2009 January 8, Y. Chassagneux, R. Colombelli, W. Maineult, S. Barbieri, H. E. Beere, D. A. Ritchie, S. P. Khanna, E. H. Linfield, A. G. Davies, “Electrically pumped photonic-crystal terahertz lasers controlled by boundary conditions”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7226, :
- The advantage of transverse magnetic polarization, however, is the possibility of exploiting surface plasmons for waveguiding.