Biophotonics articles within Nature Physics

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  • News & Views |

    Trojan beams, which are optical counterparts of Trojan asteroids that maintain stable orbits alongside planets, have been successfully showcased in experiments, opening up possibilities for transporting light in unconventional settings.

    • Tomáš Tyc
    •  & Tomáš Čižmár

  • News & Views |

    By engineering photosensitive proteins and tweaking the classical properties of light, it should be possible to tune the response of a cell equipped with photoreceptors. But would these cells be able to sense the subtle quantum properties of light?

    • Elisabetta Collini

  • Letter |

    The demonstration of a direct correlation between an optical stimulus and the biological function of a photoreceptor in living brain tissue charts the course for designing tailored pulses to control molecular dynamics in vivo.

    • Kush Paul
    • , Parijat Sengupta
    •  & Stephen A. Boppart

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