Nonlinear optical signal processing (NOSP) has the potential to significantly improve the throughput, flexibility, and cost-efficiency of optical communication networks by exploiting the intrinsically...

Metasurface-based holograms, or metaholograms, offer unique advantages including enhanced imaging quality, expanded field of view, compact system size, and broad operational bandwidth. Multi-channel m...

Phase imaging is widely used in biomedical imaging, sensing, and material characterization, among other fields. However, direct imaging of phase objects with subwavelength resolution remains a challen...

Quasicrystal has attracted lots of attention since its discovery because of the mathematically non-periodic arrangement and physically unique diffraction patterns. By combining the quasi-periodic feat...

The hope for a futuristic global quantum internet that provides robust and high-capacity quantum information transfer lies largely on qudits, the fundamental quantum information carriers prepared in h...

Structured light, particularly in the terahertz frequency range, holds considerable potential for a diverse range of applications. However, the generation and control of structured terahertz radiation...

Chirality, defined by Lord Kelvin, refers to the geometric symmetry property of an object that cannot be superposed onto its mirror image using rotations and translations. The material’s chirality can...

A quantum-light source that delivers photons with a high brightness and a high degree of entanglement is fundamental for the development of efficient entanglement-based quantum-key distribution system...

The rapid proliferation of AI-generated visual media has created an urgent need for efficient, trustworthy deepfake detection systems. However, existing deep learning–based detection methods rely on c...

Upon dual-frequency excitation upconversion nanoparticles generate beat-frequency signals owing to their inherent optical nonlinearity. These low-frequency signals are absent in any excitation and bac...

Implemented on a Si₃N₄ microresonator, a multimodal locking architecture simultaneously stabilizes pump frequency, cavity resonance, and repetition rate, enabling robust and day-scale low-repetition-r...

Light: Science & Applications - Broadening the color palette of optical skyrmions

Hierarchical shell enables lattice-interface interlocking, suppresses coupled degradation, delivers near-unity photoluminescence quantum yields and T90 exceeding 27,000 hours under continuous blue-lig...

Light: Science & Applications - Single-mode lasers before the merger

By tuning the superposition of multiple Fano interferences in IR806/Au hybrids, we achieve spectral overlap of two plasmon resonance energy transfer (PRET) peaks, maximizing energy transfer to assembl...

Light: Science & Applications - Exceptional points, lasing, and coherent perfect absorption in Floquet scattering systems

A flat-band dielectric metasurface enhances lanthanide upconversion by over 1000×, enabling compact, high-resolution infrared-to-visible imaging.

Light: Science & Applications - Narrowband, angle-stable, and highly efficient polariton organic light emitting diodes employing thermally activated delayed fluorescence

Light: Science & Applications - Gigavoxel-scale multiple-scattering-aware lensless holotomography

Spatiotemporal all-optical neural network (ST-AONN) system. This work incorporates the time dimension into traditional space-only diffractive neural networks, enabling spatiotemporal multi-dimensional...

Light: Science & Applications - Breaking the phase noise–mode purity trade-off in long-loop OEOs via cascaded zero-dispersion recirculating loops

Light: Science & Applications - Hyperspectral dual-comb compressive ghost imaging with deep learning reconstruction

Light: Science & Applications - Photo-guided azopolymer hydrogel actuators

Innovation in microscopy has often been critical in advancing both fundamental science and technological progress. Notably, the evolution of ultrafast near-field optical nano-spectroscopy and nano-ima...

Nonlinear metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness were recently established as versatile platforms for the enhanced and tailorable generation of entangled photon pairs. The small dimensions and inhe...

The ultimate goal of understanding the structure of matter has spurred a constant search for composite particles, especially high-order correlated entities for nearly all forms of matter, from element...

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The synergistic development of nanophotonics and machine learning has inspired tremendous innovations in both fields in the past decade. In diverse photonics research, deep-learning methods using arti...

Lasers with the gain medium of gas, liquid, semiconductor, and solid could generate coherent light with rather narrow spectral linewidth, which play an important role in the fields of communication, m...

Computing with light is widely recognized as a promising paradigm for overcoming the energy and latency limitations of electronic computing. However, the energy consumption and latency in current opti...

Coherent frequency microcombs, generated in nonlinear high-Q microresonators and driven by a single continuous-wave laser, have enabled several scientific breakthroughs in the past decade, thanks to t...

Neuromorphic computing offers a promising approach to artificial intelligence by mimicking biological neural networks to perform complex tasks efficiently. While software-based simulations have demons...

In the era of artificial intelligence, the computing hardware is of critical importance, with various new modalities explored. Information processing using photons, with abundant intrinsic degrees of ...

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Spatio-spectral selectivity, the capability to select a single mode with a specific wavevector (angle) and wavelength, is imperative for light emission and imaging. Continuous band dispersion of a con...

Microresonator-based Kerr frequency combs (“Kerr microcombs”) constitute chip-scale frequency combs of broad spectral bandwidth and repetition rate ranging from gigahertz to terahertz. A critical appl...

Chip-scale integration of optical frequency combs, particularly soliton microcombs, enables miniaturized instrumentation for timekeeping, ranging, and spectroscopy. Although soliton microcombs have be...

Topological pumping refers to transfer of a physical quantity governed by the system topology, resulting in quantized amounts of the transferred quantities. It is a ubiquitous wave phenomenon typicall...

Photonic quantum emulator utilizes photons to emulate the quantum physical behavior of a complex quantum system. Recent study in spatiotemporal optics has enriched the toolbox for designing and manipu...

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Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) can support boundary states at least two dimensions lower than the bulk, attracting intensive attention from both fundamental science and application sides....

With the rapid development of information technology, artificial intelligence and large-scale models have exhibited exceptional performance and widespread applications. Photonic hardware offers a prom...

Photonics has the potential to transform high-speed and energy-efficient artificial intelligence. However, most photonic computing platforms still rely on costly electro-optic conversions for data inp...

Light: Science & Applications - Van der Waals/MCT heterostructure enabled high-performance uncooled mid-infrared photodetectors via synergistic suppression of dark current and interfacial...

Measuring one photon’s spin remotely engineers topology in its entangled partner, creating quantum multiskyrmions with particle-like motion that reveal entanglement dynamics and enable robust quantum ...

A 30-beam array of polarization-squeezed light with 2.03 dB squeezing and synchronized behavior is observed via collective atomic coherence in a single vapor cell, enabling scalable quantum light sour...

By advancing the theory of dissipation from quantized open cavities, both ultrastrong coupling and an emerging "broadband dissipative" regime of cavity quantum electrodynamics can be efficiently chara...

Integrated silicon photonic polarization synthesizer/analyzer using a self-configuring MZI mesh, enabling arbitrary polarization generation, manipulation, and reconstruction