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Nature Photonics, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41566-026-02024-9 Researchers modulate population transfer from the helium ground state to a metastable state by controlling the relative phase between two interfering…
Read at Nature Photonics →Nature Photonics, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41566-026-02028-5 High-entropy molecular contacts made by blending self-assembled molecules improve hole transport through diverse packing modes. Solar cells incorporating…
Read at Nature Photonics →photonicSENS was awarded the 2026 VISION Award at the VISION 2026 conference in Stuttgart. The company is recognized for its plenoptic camera technology which captures a full 2D image and a metric, per-pixel depth map in a single shot from…
Read at Photonics.com →Infleqtion, in collaboration with Honeywell Aerospace and UC Santa Barbara, has developed an integrated optical cavity that helps shrink quantum sensors down to handheld size. The University of California, Santa Barbara's (UCSB’s)…
Read at Photonics.com →Precision applications like optical metrology, quantum sensing, and atomic clocks require a laser source with an exceptionally stable optical frequency. Often, this stability comes from bulky lasers housed in controlled laboratory…
Read at Photonics.com →When hurricane season is approaching in the Americas and much of Europe is already taking jackets out of the closet, there are places where summer still reigns. In Málaga in late September, palm trees sway in warm Mediterranean air,…
Read at Photonics.com →JEDEC Solid State Technology Association released JESD264: Silicon Photonics Qualification and Reliability Requirements, the first industry-wide standard designed to bring consistent qualification and reliability practices to silicon…
Read at Photonics.com →Liquid crystals have shaped modern photonics and electronics for decades, most visibly through the flat-panel displays that feature in the devices that dominate everyday life. Conventional nematic liquid crystals, which consist of rod-like…
Read at Photonics.com →Nature Photonics, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41566-026-02018-7 Strong coupling of photon to an electron on helium
Read at Nature Photonics →Nature Photonics, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41566-026-02017-8 The Shanghai High Repetition Rate XFEL and Extreme Light Facility is approaching its first lasing. Nature Photonics spoke with Zhentang Zhao, director of…
Read at Nature Photonics →Nature Photonics, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41566-026-02015-w Förster energy transfer can prolong the photoluminescence decay of a receiving colloidal quantum dot, revealing a possible route to optically control…
Read at Nature Photonics →Nature Photonics, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41566-026-02006-x A temporally super-resolved single-shot method overcomes the long-standing temporal–spectral trade-off in time-stretch spectroscopy. The outcome is…
Read at Nature Photonics →Nature Photonics, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41566-026-01994-0 By combining 48 parallel sensors with diffractive multiplexing to recover information from the gaps between the sensors, a new wide-field microscope…
Read at Nature Photonics →Nature Photonics, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41566-026-02011-0 Of the sensors that can directly sense forces in the pico- and sub-pico-newton ranges, only a few can measure in liquids. Microfibre-based…
Read at Nature Photonics →A research team led by Prof. Zhang Tianshu from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a low-stress electro-optic switch based on large-aperture β-barium borate (BBO) slab crystals and…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →Modern technologies increasingly rely on light sources that can be reconfigured on demand. Think of microlasers that can quickly switch between different operating states—much like a car shifting gears—so that an optical chip can route…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific understanding of how stars, nuclear detonations and fusion energy work. For decades, scientists have relied on a…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →Recently, a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully grew a high-entropy garnet-structured oxide crystal and achieved enhanced laser performance at the 2.8 μm wavelength…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →Plasma mirrors capable of withstanding the intensity of powerful lasers are being designed through an emerging machine learning framework. Researchers in Physics and Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde have pooled their…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →By changing the physical structure of gold at the nanoscale, researchers can drastically change how the material interacts with light—and, as a result, its electronic and optical properties. This is shown by a study from Umeå University…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including the ground beneath the canopy, in fine…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →Dark matter is a mysterious type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, yet is predicted to account for most of the universe's mass. While physicists have gathered extensive indirect evidence of its existence, so far dark…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →A team of engineers and scientists has shown for the first time that a hard-X-ray cavity can provide net X-ray gain, with X-ray pulses being circulated between crystal mirrors and amplified in the process, much like happens with an optical…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →Researchers at the University of Basel and the ETH in Zurich have succeeded in changing the polarity of a special ferromagnet using a laser beam. In the future, this method could be used to create adaptable electronic circuits with light.
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →For the first time, physicists have generated and observed stable bright matter-wave solitons with attractive interactions within a grid of laser light.
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) semiconductor lasers are highly sought for medical, biotechnology, and precision manufacturing applications; however, previous UV-B laser diodes were limited to pulsed operation or required cryogenic cooling, making…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →Radio telescopes are instruments that capture faint radio signals from space and convert them into images of celestial bodies. To observe distant black holes clearly, multiple radio telescopes must capture cosmic signals at exactly the…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →Muons are unstable subatomic particles that spontaneously and rapidly transform into other particles via a process known as electroweak decay. Altering the speed with which muons decay into other particles was so far deemed a challenging…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work with the highest possible focused laser peak power, which is the ratio of energy per unit area to pulse duration.…
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows a team of researchers at LMU to detect even the smallest movements of a laser beam with extreme sensitivity.
Read at Phys.org · Lasers →Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronizes ultrashort X-ray pulses at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL. This achievement opens new possibilities for observing…
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