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Fluorescence modulation advances three-dimensional optical data storage

Epitaxial growth of thin zinc telluride layers could advance the development of terahertz emitters and detectors

Grooves guide terahertz surface plasmon polaritons to subwavelength confinement

Quantum dots help to guide light at the subdiffraction limit

Long-range interactions are observed between optical solitons

Studies reveal new ways in which chiral molecules get a grip over light

Sinusoidal gating enables InGaAs avalanche photodiodes to operate at 800 MHz

Terahertz microchip offers a sensitive nose to sniff out drugs

Nonlinearity in fibre Bragg gratings reduces broadening of slow light pulses

Superposition of off-axis holograms drives three-dimensional imaging to subdiffraction limit

Surface plasmons strongly improve performance of mid-infrared photodetectors

Controlling the birth of attosecond light pulses

Fibre lasers offer a new method of secure communication

Coupling a photonic crystal waveguide to a propagating surface plasmon allows biosensors to get smaller and cheaper

The strange world of quantum mechanics gets even stranger with the experimental entanglement of absent photons

Silicon nitride microdisk cavities help boost atom-chip technology

Quantum key distribution with a 10-GHz clock frequency

An electrically driven hybrid silicon/III–V semiconductor laser for use in integrated optical circuits

Optical quantum computers come a step closer to reality

Metamaterial lenses could project an image onto the far-field with a resolution beyond the diffraction limit