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    | Open Access

    Band engineering in optics allows the design of unconventional forms of light with potential optoelectronic applications. Here, the authors realize slow-light intercavity polaritons in an array of coupled cavities, the photonic architecture enables the spatial segregation of photons and excitons

    • Yesenia A. García Jomaso
    • , Brenda Vargas
    •  & Giuseppe Pirruccio

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    | Open Access

    Slow light effects are interesting for telecommunications and quantum photonics applications. Here, the authors use coupled exciton-surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in a hybrid monolayer WSe2-metallic waveguide structure to demonstrate a 1300-fold reduction of the SPP group velocity.

    • Matthew Klein
    • , Rolf Binder
    •  & John R. Schaibley

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    | Open Access

    Controlling the dispersion of femtosecond light pulses remains a key challenge for their application. Here, the authors report dispersion-engineered transmissive nanocoatings for ultrashort laser pulse compression in the vis-NIR spectral region.

    • M. Ossiander
    • , Y.-W. Huang
    •  & F. Capasso

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    | Open Access

    Photon echo techniques are difficult to implement in the quantum regime due to coherent and spontaneous emission noise. Here, the authors propose a low-noise photon-echo quantum memory approach based on all-optical control in a four-level system, and demonstrate it using a Eu3+:Y2SiO5 crystal.

    • You-Zhi Ma
    • , Ming Jin
    •  & Guang-Can Guo

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    | Open Access

    Quantum memories are key components for quantum communication, but current storage times are still too short. Here, the authors use the atomic frequency comb protocol in a zero-first-order-Zeeman field to coherently store an optical pulse for an hour in a cryogenically cooled rare-earth doped crystal.

    • Yu Ma
    • , You-Zhi Ma
    •  & Guang-Can Guo

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    | Open Access

    Here the authors present an experimental demonstration of a free carrier front induced intraband indirect photonic transition and show how the waveguide dispersion can be exploited to decrease the required free carrier concentration for substantial reflection via an indirect intraband transition.

    • Mahmoud A. Gaafar
    • , Dirk Jalas
    •  & Manfred Eich

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    | Open Access

    Numerical simulation of light propagation through 1D atomic systems in the many-body limit rapidly saturates hardware capabilities. Here, the authors tackle the problem by mapping the dynamics to an open 1D interacting spin system and solving it using the matrix product state ansatz.

    • Marco T. Manzoni
    • , Darrick E. Chang
    •  & James S. Douglas

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    | Open Access

    The state of a single photon can be stored as a Rydberg excitation using electromagnetically induced transparency, and this enables nonlinear interactions at the single-photon level. Here, the authors store a paired photon emitted by a quantum memory in an ensemble-based, highly nonlinear medium.

    • Emanuele Distante
    • , Pau Farrera
    •  & Hugues de Riedmatten

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    | Open Access

    Phase velocity of light can be slowed down when passing through a moving medium. Here the authors demonstrate a light dragging effect enhanced by three orders of magnitude over previous reports by using electromagnetically induced transparency in cold Rubidium atoms and utilize this effect for motion sensors.

    • Pei-Chen Kuan
    • , Chang Huang
    •  & Shau-Yu Lan

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    | Open Access

    Quantum-network protocols based on photon-atom interfaces have stimulated a great demand for single-photon sources with narrow bandwidth. Here the authors report the generation of entangled photon pairs with controllable bandwidth and coherence time from a Doppler-broadened hot atomic vapour cell.

    • Chi Shu
    • , Peng Chen
    •  & Shengwang Du

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    | Open Access

    Slow and stored light induced by electromagnetically induced transparency can enhance the strength of light–matter interaction and enable nonlinear optical processes even at single-photon levels. Here Lee, et al.demonstrate spinor slow light using a double-tripod atom–light coupling scheme.

    • Meng-Jung Lee
    • , Julius Ruseckas
    •  & Ite A. Yu

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