Artistic impression of the splitting of left-and right-handed circularly-polarized beams due to the Spin Hall Effect.

Cover design by Tom Wilson.

Letter by Bliokh et al.

Self-healing Airy beams are used for the manipulation of microparticles.

Cover design by Tom Wilson.

Letter by Baumgartl et al.

Fast, dynamical focusing promotes the potential of liquid lenses.

Cover design by Tom Wilson.

Letter by Hirsa et al.

A plasmonic nanostructure reduces the beam divergence of semiconductor lasers.

Cover design by Tom Wilson.

Article by Nanfang Yu et al.

Applications ranging from communications to data processing benefit from the latest slow-light technologies.

Cover design by Tom Wilson.

Illustration of random lasing action from photonic glass.

Cover design by Tom Wilson.

Letter by Stefano Gottardo et al.

Subwavelength traps based on gold nanopillar substrates.

Cover design by Tom Wilson

Article by Grigorenko et al.

Nanostructures that support plasmon resonances enable optimized absorption from any direction.

Cover design by Tom Wilson

Letter by Teperiket al.

Controlling the direction of emission from single molecules.

Cover design by Tom Wilson

Letter by van Hulst et al.

Plasmonics provides a new tool for colour imaging.

Cover design by Tom Wilson

Letter by Eric Laux et al.

Optoelectronic tweezers manipulate an array of nanorods.

Cover design by Ming Wu (University of California, Berkeley, California) and Tom Wilson

Article by Jamshidi et al.

Guiding light round the bend in three-dimensional photonic crystals.

Cover design by Stephen Eisenmann (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Tom Wilson

Article by Rinne et al.