Volume 12 Issue 5, May 2018

Exquisitely low-loss optical resonators have thus far remained discrete. Monolithic integration of waveguides with silica resonators that have Q factors >100 million charts a path toward incorporating these devices in photonic circuits.

High-order harmonics in the extreme-ultraviolet regime can be produced and a stable waveform-locked attosecond pulse can be formed when quartz is excited by a strong short-pulsed laser, providing a robust path towards attosecond photonics.

The evolution of modulational instability sidebands in an optical fibre are shown to provide new insights into Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou recurrences.

In the quest for nanoscopy with super-resolution, consensus from the imaging community is that super-resolution is not always needed and that scientists should choose an imaging technique based on their specific application.

By combining a chromatic focusing system with chirped laser pulses, the spatiotemporal distribution of the laser pulse is controlled in the focal region. The focal spot propagates over nearly 100 times its Rayleigh length at any velocity.

A highly nonlinear optical response can be used to time-resolve light-induced phase transitions with few-femtosecond to sub-femtosecond accuracy, paving the way for time-resolving highly correlated many-body dynamics in strongly correlated systems with few-femtosecond accuracy.

The use of mixed crystal phases is shown to enhance the power conversion efficiency of inorganic ferroelectric perovskite solar cells.

The use of a time-gated reflection matrix of a scattering medium, in particular via using singular value decomposition and injecting light into the largest time-gated eigenchannel, can lead to a more than tenfold enhancement in light energy delivery in comparison with ordinary wave diffusion cases.

Based on a modified Mie scattering theory, several pathways to achieve control over the directionality, polarization state and spectral emission that rely on a coherent coupling of an emitting dipole in monolayer MoS₂ to optical resonances of a silicon nanowire are reported.

High-harmonic generation in quartz offers immunity to the extreme-ultraviolet waveform against the intensity and phase noise of the driving laser pulse, extending precision waveform synthesis to the extreme ultraviolet.

Using silicon nitride waveguides processed by plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition, full integration of ultrahigh-Q resonators with other photonic devices is now possible, representing a critical advance for future photonic circuits and systems.

The Fermi–Pasta–Ulam recurrence process—the recovery of the initial state of a nonlinear system after a certain time—is observed for the first time in a low-loss optical fibre by building a multi-channel, vector optical-time-domain reflectometer.