Light-Science & Applications

Publisher:: Springer Nature
ISSN:: 2095-5545
Category:: OPTICS
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Last update: 2026-10-23

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Non-Hermitian exceptional topology on a Klein bottle photonic circuit

2026-10-21

Ze-Sheng Xu, J. Lukas K. König, Andrea Cataldo, Rohan Yadgirkar, Govind Krishna, Venkatesh Deenadayalan, Val Zwiller, Stefan Preble, Emil J. Bergholtz, Jun Gao, Ali W. Elshaari

DOI: 10.1038/s41377-026-02516-x

Uncooled low-noise optomechanical sensors on thin-film lithium niobate

2026-10-20

Yue Yu, Ran Yin, Ian Anderson, Yinan Wang, Jack Kramer, Ian Christen, Chun-Ho Lee, Xinyi Ren, Zaijun Chen, Michelle L. Povinelli, Daniel Wasserman, Ruochen Lu, Mengjie Yu

DOI: 10.1038/s41377-026-02506-z

Sliding metasurfaces: a two-in-one meta-device for frequency filtering and beam steering

2026-10-16

Lei Xu, Mohsen Rahmani

DOI: 10.1038/s41377-026-02470-8

Topology-optimized dielectric cavities for enhanced excitonic light emission from WSe 2

2026-10-13

Owen Matthiessen, Brandon Triplett, Omer Yesilyurt, Davide Cassara, Karthik Pagadala, Morris M. Yang, Andres E. Llacsahuanga Allcca, Hamza Ather, Colton Fruhling, Abhishek Bharatbhai Solanki, Yong P. Chen, Hadiseh Alaeian, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Federico Capasso, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vahagn Mkhitaryan

DOI: 10.1038/s41377-026-02436-w

Spatiotemporal terahertz emission nanoscopy of spintronic photocurrent

2026-10-08

Felix Paries, Reza Rouzegar, Jiahua Cai, Mingcong Dai, Felix Selz, Johanna Koelbel, Geoffrey Lezier, Nicolas Tiercelin, Daniel Molter, Daniel M. Mittleman, Georg von Freymann, Xiaojun Wu, Tom S. Seifert

DOI: 10.1038/s41377-026-02468-2

Photonic thermal management of overhead cables via high-thermal-conductivity radiative cooling

2026-10-08

Kai Xu, Peng-Fei Cao, Jehad K. El-Demellawi, Hussam Qasem, Qiaoqiang Gan

DOI: 10.1038/s41377-026-02485-1

Transmission of multi-level time-bin encoded cluster states over 29 km of partially deployed optical fiber

2026-10-01

Philip Rübeling, Robert Johanning, Jan Heine, Oleksandr V. Marchukov, Michael Kues

We transmit cluster states over 29.5 km of partially deployed optical fiber using multi-level time-bin encoding, demonstrating fiber-compatible complex quantum resources for quantum networking.

DOI: 10.1038/s41377-026-02465-5

Photo-guided azopolymer hydrogel actuators

2026-09-17

David Urban, Ryota Toyohara, Marcel Rey, Daniele Martella, Dag Roar Hjelme, Andrea Alessandrini, Toshiro Ohashi, Emiliano Descrovi

DOI: 10.1038/s41377-026-02411-5

Gapless tunable intense terahertz pulse generation in strained diamond

2026-03-31

Yudan Su, Yuxuan Wei, Chaonan Lin, Li Huang, Jiaming Le, Chong-xin Shan, A. H. Kung, Chuanshan Tian, Y. Ron Shen

Light: Science & Applications, Published online: 31 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41377-025-02092-6 Gapless tunable intense terahertz pulse generation in strained diamond

Boltzmann luminescent nanothermometry: mechanistic criteria and predictive design of thermally coupled levels

2026-03-24

Kejie Li, Jiaqi Zhao, Mochen Jia, Dongxu Guo, Ruiying Lu, Zhiying Wang, Zuoling Fu

Light: Science & Applications, Published online: 24 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41377-026-02260-2 Boltzmann luminescent nanothermometry: mechanistic criteria and predictive design of thermally coupled levels

Rapid trapping and label-free optical characterization of single nanoscale extracellular vesicles and nanoparticles in solution

2026-03-20

Ikjun Hong, Chuchuan Hong, Theodore Anyika, Guodong Zhu, Maxwell Ugwu, James N. Higginbotham, Jeffrey L. Franklin, Robert Coffey, Justus C. Ndukaife

Light: Science & Applications, Published online: 20 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41377-026-02201-z Interferometric Electrohydrodynamic Tweezers (IET) uniquely integrates parallel trapping with label-free interferometric imaging and non-destructive Raman spectroscopy for simultaneous sizing and chemical characterization of nanoscale extracellular vesicles and nanoparticles.