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Announcements

2023 Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter“. To celebrate the prize, Springer-Nature has created a collection of seminal papers and relevant content from nature.com.

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

Attosecond transient interferometry

Sub-cycle phase-resolved attosecond interferometry is developed. The obtained phase information enables us to decouple the multiple quantum paths induced in a light-driven system, isolating their coherent contribution and retrieving their temporal evolution.

Minute-scale Schrödinger-cat state of spin-5/2 atoms

Using spin-5/2 nuclei of 173Yb atoms trapped in an optical lattice, a Schrödinger-cat state persists for a coherence time of 1.4 × 103 s. In measuring external magnetic fields, the cat state exhibits a sensitivity approaching the Heisenberg limit.

Nonlinear optical colloidal metacrystals

Researchers use a DNA-mediated approach for the programmable assembly of octahedron-shaped plasmonic gold nanocrystals into nonlinear optical metacrystals. A maximum second-harmonic generation conversion efficiency of 10−9 is demonstrated.

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