Strong coupling of photon to an electron on helium
Nature Photonics, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41566-026-02018-7 Strong coupling of photon to an electron on helium
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SHINE lights up the extremes
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 →Delaying light from quantum dots
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 →Time-stretch spectroscopy breaks temporal aliasing barrier
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 →One super sensor from many
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 →Optomechanics for piconewton force metrology
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 →Hybrid nanophotonic trap boosts atomic storage and coherence times
Nature Photonics, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41566-026-02005-y A hybrid nanophotonic trap that replaces the attractive red-detuned laser field with atom–surface interactions — Casimir–Polder interactions and…
Read at Nature Photonics →Microchip Nd:YAG laser with master-oscillator–power-amplifier architecture
Nature Photonics, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41566-026-01984-2 This work reports an integrated Nd:Y3Al5O12 laser–amplifier system based on a microchip master-oscillator–power-amplifier architecture. A double-resonant…
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