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Featuring research on photon avalanche nanoparticles, attosecond solitons, intense squeezed light, photon bunching in high harmonic generation and more besides.

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Light Talk

This collection brings together in one place the Question & Answer interviews that Nature Photonics has conducted with leading figures in photonics over the years.

Pioneers in Photonics

With this collection of obituaries, we celebrate the great scientists that helped shape modern day photonics.

Photonic solutions help fight climate crisis

The mitigation of climate change requires major transformations in the ways we generate energy and operate technologies that release carbon dioxide. Photonic concepts and novel light-driven technologies provide many potential solutions, transforming our current modes of energy use into more effective and sustainable ones.

Latest Research articles

Plasmonic biosensor enabled by resonant quantum tunnelling

Exploiting resonant quantum electron tunnelling empowered by an optically resonant, doubly periodic plasmonic nanowire metasurface, a biosensor with no external light source is demonstrated, boosting the integrability of the biosensor.

Ångström-tunable polarization-resolved solid-state photon sources

A platform based on quantum-emitter-embedded metasurfaces with a microcavity that can be tuned by a micro-electromechanical system is demonstrated, enabling dynamic photon emission with narrow bandwidth, ångström-level wavelength tunability and polarization switching.

Attosecond virtual charge dynamics in dielectrics

Attosecond transient reflection spectroscopy is used to experimentally observe the attosecond electron dynamics of a crystalline diamond, showing that virtual interband transitions affect the timing and adiabaticity of the crystal response and thus providing insights for the development of information processing and petahertz electronics.

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