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Regimes enabling the strongest confinement of electromagnetic field by guided modes of dielectric micro- and nanowaveguides are identified. Waveguides of this class are shown to allow a guidance of subwavelength optical beams.
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Original Russian Text © A.M. Zheltikov, 2010, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2010, Vol. 91, No. 8, pp. 410–413.
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Zheltikov, A.M. Subwavelength confinement of electromagnetic field by guided modes of dielectric micro- and nanowaveguides. Jetp Lett. 91, 378–381 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364010080035
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