December 2023

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  • Spotlight Summary by Silvia Soria

    • Multi-mode microcavity frequency engineering through a shifted grating in a photonic crystal ring
    • Or the beauty of simplicity.

      Mode engineering is a key technique for enabling nonlinear optical frequency generation in microcavities. Nonlinear Optics is progressing and growing at a fast rate thanks to very...
    • Photon. Res. 11(11) A72-A79 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Alex Krasnok

    • Polariton vortex Chern insulator [Invited]
    • In the landscape of condensed matter and photonics, topological insulators have captured the imagination of scientists for their robust edge states protected by topology. Now, Harrison et al. propose a concept...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 13(9) 2550-2562 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Vicente Durán

    • Fiber-delivered heterodyne spectroscopy with a mid-infrared frequency comb
    • Delivering light through a long fiber to perform mid-infrared (IR) spectroscopy offers a great potential for remote sensing in medical applications and in hazardous or inaccessible environments. Recently developed...
    • Opt. Express 31(21) 34064-34073 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Guangyuan Li

    • Electromagnetic heating-assisted metasurface for stably tunable, fast-responding chiroptics
    • High-Q chiral metasurfaces have emerged as an exciting platform for diverse applications including chiral photoluminescence, chiral lasing, optical vortex generation, and chiral biochemical sensing. How to...
    • Opt. Lett. 48(22) 5903-5906 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Alessandro Tonello

    • Accurate modeling of ultrafast nonlinear pulse propagation in multimode gain fiber
    • Multimode nonlinear fiber optics in presence of amplification can play a pivotal role in a variety of new interesting phenomena and applications. However, extending the numerical models for light-matter interaction to...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40(10) 2633-2642 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Simone Zanotto

    • Integrated microcavity optomechanics with a suspended photonic crystal mirror above a distributed Bragg reflector
    • The successful marriage between nanophotonics and micro-electromechanics has led to the blossoming research field of optomechanics, with important outlooks both in the classical and in the quantum regimes. Indeed,...
    • Opt. Express 31(19) 30212-30226 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Paul Steinvurzel

    • Low-noise supercontinuum generation in chiral all-normal dispersion photonic crystal fibers
    • Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen and Max Planck Institute show a path towards very low noise supercontinuum (SC) light sources using chiral light. SC sources provide extremely bright, spatially...
    • Opt. Lett. 48(20) 5297-5300 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Serge Mordon

    • Biocompatible polymer optical fiber with a strongly scattering spherical end for interstitial photodynamic therapy
    • Diffusing fibers are more effective than flat-cut fibers in delivering the therapeutic light when performing Interstitial Photodynamic Therapy (I-PDT), an approach that is aimed at selectively killing cancerous tissues...
    • Opt. Lett. 48(15) 3849-3852 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Romolo Savo

    • Tunable and efficient ultraviolet generation with periodically poled lithium niobate
    • In the field of integrated photonics, a longstanding goal has been to minimize the size of systems. This work by Hwang et al. challenges this conventional wisdom when it comes to achieving efficient chip-based...
    • Opt. Lett. 48(15) 3917-3920 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Rui Su

    • Solution-processed halide perovskite microcavity exciton-polariton light-emitting diodes working at room temperature
    • Lead halide perovskites are excellent emitters with high quantum efficiency, which has witnessed prosperous development in light emitting applications, such as low-threshold lasers or light emitting diodes. While...
    • Photon. Res. 11(10) 1791-1801 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

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