Volume 10
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No. 12 December 2016
An array of LEDs emitting entangled photons based on single quantum dots inside pyramidal recesses.
Article p782
IMAGE: TUNG-HSUN CHUNG, TYNDALL NATIONAL INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC
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No. 11 November 2016
Interactions between single zinc and mercury ions with plasmonic gold nanorods are monitored using an optical whispering gallery mode sensor.
Article p733; News & Views p697
IMAGE: ELLA MARUSHCHENKO
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC
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No. 10 October 2016
Artist's impression of a solid-state optoelectronic device that generates single photons for use in experiments in quantum optics.
Review Article p631
IMAGE: IGOR AHARONOVICH, DIRK ENGLUND AND MILOS TOTH
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC
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No. 9 September 2016
Artist's impression of the optical apparatus used to perform fluorescent imaging of a single, trapped, cooled ytterbium ion. The ultrahigh positional sensitivity of the approach makes it possible to directly observe atomic motion.
Article p606
IMAGE: SEAN KELLEY/JOINT QUANTUM INSTITUTE
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC
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No. 8 August 2016
Phase locking of a 2D array of coupled surface-emitting terahertz quantum cascade nanolasers results in an output beam with diffraction-limited divergence and high power.
Article p541
IMAGE: D. LIU, T.-Y. KAO AND Q. HU
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC
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No. 7 July 2016
Artistic illustration of coherent nonlinear optical interactions taking place between a single molecule of dibenzanthanthrene and pump and probe beams containing just a few photons.
Letter p450; News & Views p438
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC, BASED ON A CONCEPT BY VAHID SANDOGHDAR
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No. 6 June 2016
An optomechanical microresonator formed from a glass microtoroid (pictured) is shown to support the transfer of optical chaos from a strong pump signal to a weaker probe signal via mechanical motion of the resonator.
Article p399; News & Views p366
IMAGE: F. MONIFI, S. K. öZDEMIR, B. PENG AND L. YANG
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC
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No. 5 May 2016
A spectrotemporal view of the emergence of femtosecond mode-locking. Real-time spectroscopy provides a stream of spectra during the build-up of ultrashort pulses from noisy fluctuations. This 3D representation visualizes the final stage of the process: one narrowband spectral line rapidly broadens, bursts and finally relaxes to a broad femtosecond spectrum.
Article p321
IMAGE: GEORG HERINK
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC
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No. 4 April 2016
Scanning near-field optical microscopy reveals the structure of plasmon sheet and edge modes in graphene disk and rectangular nanoresonators.
Letter p239
IMAGE: ELLA MARUSHCHENKO
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC
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No. 3 March 2016
The experimental set-up used by Hafezi and colleagues to measure the winding number of edge states in a 2D photonic system consisting of a 2D array of ring resonators.
Letter p180
IMAGE: EMILY EDWARDS, JOINT QUANTUM INSTITUTE
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC
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No. 2 February 2016
Image of a living cell generated by a super-resolution nanoscopy imaging scheme called 'protected STED'. The cell's vimentin cytoskeleton filaments with a width of about 40 nm are clearly highlighted by a reversibly photoswitchable fluorescent protein. The use of two means, stimulated emission and reversible photoswitching, for switching off the fluorescence, protects the fluorophores from photobleaching.
Article p122
IMAGE: MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC
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No. 1 January 2016
Artist's impression of a light beam 'writing' a desired functionality into a reconfigurable optical device formed from a phase change material of germanium–antimony–tellurium. Functions may include lensing with multiple focal spots and variable focal lengths, holograms and optical filters.
Article p60
IMAGE: PHIL SAUNDERS, EDWARD ROGERS AND NIKOLAY ZHELUDEV
COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC