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    Conventional super-oscillatory devices suffer from numerical-aperture related issue including depth of focus, chromatic dispersion, and focusing, Here, the authors utilised multi-objective genetic algorithm to optimise the design and experimentally demonstrated lens with an extended depth of focus, ultra-large working distance and suppressed side-lobes.

    • Wenli Li
    • , Pei He
    •  & Yiting Yu

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    In this work, authors report a transparent dynamic infrared emissivity modulation mechanism based on reversible injection/extraction of electrons in aluminium-doped zinc oxide nanocrystals and demonstrate it for smart thermal management applications.

    • Yan Jia
    • , Dongqing Liu
    •  & Tianwen Liu

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    Since their initial operation, free-electron lasers are regularly upgraded in their performance and parameter control. Here the authors present the first lasing results of the soft X-ray free-electron laser beamline of the Paul Scherrer Institute, demonstrating different modes of operation and polarisation control of the tailored soft X-ray pulses.

    • Eduard Prat
    • , Andre Al Haddad
    •  & Tobias Weilbach

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    Measurement and control of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) is essential for applications of few-cycle laser beams. The authors present a compact on-chip, ambient-air, CEP scanning probe and show a 3D map of spatial changes of CEP and demonstrate CEP control in the focal volume with a spatial light modulator.

    • Václav Hanus
    • , Beatrix Fehér
    •  & Péter Dombi

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    Current multispectral video cameras can hardly scale up beyond megapixel resolution and do not apply to large-scale scenes. The authors design a tens-ofmegapixel handheld multi-spectral imaging scheme, build a setup achieving 65-megapixel videography of 12 wavebands, and show its wide applications.

    • Weihang Zhang
    • , Jinli Suo
    •  & Qionghai Dai

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    Spectroscopic gas sensing with high sensitivity and selectivity finds an increasing number of applications. Here, the authors report an approach to ultrasensitive multiplexed gas sensing by integrating dual-comb spectroscopy with cavity optomechanics.

    • Xinyi Ren
    • , Jin Pan
    •  & Heping Zeng

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    Multicolor imaging employing genetically-encodable fluorescent proteins permits spatiotemporal live cell imaging of multiple cues. Here, authors use multicolor lifetime imaging to visualize quadruple-labelled human immunodeficiency viruses within cellular contexts.

    • Tobias Starling
    • , Irene Carlon-Andres
    •  & Sergi Padilla-Parra

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    Understanding the mechanical properties of materials is critical in many fields, from soft hydrogels to biological tissues, yet current measurement methods lack the spatial and time resolution to characterize samples with complex structures. Here, the authors show non-invasive elastography technique offering advancements in resolution, sensitivity, and measurement frequencies.

    • Xu Feng
    • , Guo-Yang Li
    •  & Seok-Hyun Yun

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    By using tumor-specific fluorescent tracers, fluorescence molecular imaging (FMI) can be used to visualize tumor tissues with high specificity. Here the authors report the results of a phase II trial to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of an EGFR-targeted FMI for intraoperative margin assessment in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma.

    • Jaron G. de Wit
    • , Jasper Vonk
    •  & Max J. H. Witjes

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    The authors present a generation-elimination framework that correlates the spectra from different frequency bands, where the inaccessible spectra are precisely forecasted without consulting structural information. The spectral correlation will accelerate the unification of all metasurface designs and facilitate versatile applications involving cross-wavelength information correlation.

    • Jieting Chen
    • , Chao Qian
    •  & Hongsheng Chen

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    The application of time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy (TR-PEEM) to non-conducting materials is challenging. Here, the authors report the TR-PEEM characterization of near-field dielectric modes and photoemission properties of insulating hexagonal boron nitride structures on indium tin oxide/glass substrates.

    • Yaolong Li
    • , Pengzuo Jiang
    •  & Qihuang Gong

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    Lithium niobate (LN) is difficult to process via dry etching. Here, authors demonstrate the fabrication of deeply etched, tightly confining, low loss LN photonic integrated circuits with losses 4 dB/m using diamond like carbon as a hard mask.

    • Zihan Li
    • , Rui Ning Wang
    •  & Tobias J. Kippenberg

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    Mid-infrared light emitting diodes (LEDs) based on black phosphorus (BP) have shown promising performance, but they are usually limited by the environmental instability of the material. Here, the authors extrapolate a room-temperature operational lifetime of BP LEDs up to ~ 15,000 h via Al2O3 passivation and nitrogen seal packaging.

    • Naoki Higashitarumizu
    • , Shogo Tajima
    •  & Ali Javey

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    Quantum super-resolution techniques take advantage of the non-classical nature of the quantum emitters, but are time-consuming. Here, the authors present a machine learning-assisted approach for fast antibunching-based super-resolution imaging, with a 12-fold speed up over the conventional approach

    • Zhaxylyk A. Kudyshev
    • , Demid Sychev
    •  & Vladimir M. Shalaev

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    Nanoresonator is proven to be an excellent platform for molecular detection, yet a set of them is necessary to identify a molecule fingerprint. Here, the authors utilise low quality resonators with large radiative losses, despite its lower quality factor, to identify molecular absorption spectrum between 5 and 10 μm.

    • Laura Paggi
    • , Alice Fabas
    •  & Patrick Bouchon

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    Manipulation of nano-sized extracellular vesicles are of significant interest for disease detection, monitoring, and therapeutics, yet it is still challenging to expedite the process. Here, the authors presented geometry-induced electrohydrodynamic tweezers, which enable fast parallel transport and trapping of single vesicle within seconds.

    • Chuchuan Hong
    •  & Justus C. Ndukaife

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    Here, the authors show that van der Waals isotopic heterostructures based on few-layer h10BN and h11BN can be tuned to modulate the energy-momentum dispersions of hyperbolic phonon polaritons, offering an alternative approach to engineer the nanophotonic properties of 2D materials.

    • M. Chen
    • , Y. Zhong
    •  & S. Dai

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    Continuous-variable quantum networks are easier to implement than discrete-variable ones, but suffer from a lower teleportation fidelity. Here, the authors demonstrate a CV teleportation protocol exploiting heralded noiseless amplification to increase the fidelity, at the expense of probabilistic operation.

    • Jie Zhao
    • , Hao Jeng
    •  & Ping Koy Lam

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    Knowledge of atmospheric turbulence strength at various distances is critical for the development of effective solutions for turbulence mitigation. Here, authors demonstrate how to probe the distribution of turbulence strength along a propagation path with multiple longitudinally structured optical beams

    • Huibin Zhou
    • , Xinzhou Su
    •  & Alan E. Willner

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    Operating macroscopic mechanical resonators in the quantum regime has recently attracted significant interest. Here, the authors demonstrate ground-state cooling of a nanostring mechanical resonator via measurement-based feedback, reaching 0.76 average phonon occupation starting from liquid helium temperature, and 3.5 when starting from liquid nitrogen.

    • Jingkun Guo
    • , Jin Chang
    •  & Simon Gröblacher

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    The scattering of light by small particles plays a central role in a myriad of fields. Here, the authors demonstrate a super dipole resonance that arises when two resonant modes of a small particle interfere, overcoming a widely accepted limitation to the cross section.

    • Adrià Canós Valero
    • , Hadi K. Shamkhi
    •  & Alexander S. Shalin

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    Here, the authors show the dynamic tuning of the moiré potential in a WS2/WSe2 heterobilayer by gate voltage and optical power, allowing for simultaneous observation of the first and second order Stark shift for the ground state and first excited state, respectively, of the moiré trapped exciton.

    • Suman Chatterjee
    • , Medha Dandu
    •  & Kausik Majumdar

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    The progress development of multispectral camouflage technologies has been limited to the choice of materials and structural design. Here, authors propose a material-informatics-based inverse design framework to efficiently design multilayer metamaterials with satisfying visible-infrared camouflage performance.

    • Wang Xi
    • , Yun-Jo Lee
    •  & Run Hu

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    Rouge waves have been observed in a number of complex systems, but not in biological structures. Here, the authors report the observation of optical rouge waves manifesting in tumor-cell spheroids when illuminated by randomly modulated laser beams.

    • Davide Pierangeli
    • , Giordano Perini
    •  & Claudio Conti

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    Smooth topological photonic interfaces lead to less localized boundary modes which improves their guiding characteristics in both spin- and valley Hall metasurfaces. The modes become insensitive to the lattice details, showcasing improved bandgap crossing and longer propagation distances.

    • Anton Vakulenko
    • , Svetlana Kiriushechkina
    •  & Alexander B. Khanikaev

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    The authors observe the signatures of quadrupolar excitons in a WSe2-WS2-WSe2 trilayer moiré superlattice, originating from the hybridization of the WSe2 valence moiré flatbands. They further use electrostatic gating to reveal a hybridized interlayer Mott insulator state, with holes shared between the two WSe2 layers but laterally confined in moiré superlattices.

    • Zhen Lian
    • , Dongxue Chen
    •  & Su-Fei Shi

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    Here the authors employ quantum electrodynamics to formulate thermal emission effects in time-modulated media, resulting in innovative thermal emitters. They show that time modulation induces strong field fluctuations in epsilon-near-zero bodies, enabling narrowband emission across the entire range of wavevectors, from near to far-field regimes.

    • J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano
    •  & Iñigo Liberal

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    Development of synchroton facilities increases the demand of optics for focusing X-ray beam to achieve diffraction-limited focusing onto samples. Here, the authors demonstrated an X-ray optical element based on visible light Alvarez varifocal lens providing precise performance focusing elements.

    • Vishal Dhamgaye
    • , David Laundy
    •  & Kawal Sawhney

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    Data security of internet is increasingly more demanding in the current era, yet the traditional electronic approach is limited in speed and efficiency. Here, the authors proposed a dual-layer optical encryption fluorescent polymer waveguide chip based on optical pulse-code modulation to mitigate the limitations.

    • Chunxue Wang
    • , Daming Zhang
    •  & Teng Fei

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    Plasma can act as a tunable medium in electro-optical device. Here the authors demonstrate electrically induced transmission due to change in absorption in a microphotonic device consisting of a plasma-filled microcavity.

    • Baheej Bathish
    • , Raanan Gad
    •  & Tal Carmon

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    The authors present a high quality factor metasurface that enables sensitive and highly-parallelized detection of biomolecules. Amplification-free detection of gene fragments down to femtomolar levels is demonstrated within 5 minutes, for rapid nucleic acid analysis.

    • Jack Hu
    • , Fareeha Safir
    •  & Jennifer A. Dionne

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    Owing to the nonequilibrium nature, photonic topological phenomena can involve multiple band gaps. Here the authors report on the discovery of a class of hybrid topological photonic crystals that host quantum anomalous Hall and valley Hall phases simultaneously.

    • Yanan Wang
    • , Hai-Xiao Wang
    •  & Guang-Yu Guo

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    The authors present μeV electron spectromicroscopy, a technique that combines free-space light and electron beams to achieve unmatched spatial and spectral resolution. This approach enables detailed investigation of photonic structures, promising advancements in microscopy and quantum optics.

    • Yves Auad
    • , Eduardo J. C. Dias
    •  & Mathieu Kociak

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    Volumetric additive manufacturing generally suffers from systematic undercuring of fine features, which limits its application range. Here, authors develop a model to predict print time variation with feature size and propose a deconvolution method, enabling precise fabrication of intricate structures.

    • Antony Orth
    • , Daniel Webber
    •  & Chantal Paquet

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    Hybrid quantum systems, such as superconducting qubits interacting with microwave photons in resonators, offer a rich platform for exploring fundamental physics. Wang et al. observe parity symmetry breaking in a probe qubit dispersively coupled to a resonator in the deep-strong coupling regime.

    • Shuai-Peng Wang
    • , Alessandro Ridolfo
    •  & J. Q. You

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    Group-IV nanowires hold great promise for building ideal light sources for photonic integrated circuits. This study presents an observation of cavity resonances in a single GeSn nanowire, laying the foundation for realizing group-IV nanowire lasers.

    • Youngmin Kim
    • , Simone Assali
    •  & Oussama Moutanabbir

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    The authors present phase intensity nanoscope (PINE), which uses an integrated phase-intensity multilayer thin film to localize randomly distributed nanoprobes and resolve sub-10 nm cellular architectures. They demonstrate dynamic imaging of nanoscopic reorganization over 250 h and find that nanoscale rearrangements emerging into macroscale rearrangements are synchronized.

    • Guangjie Cui
    • , Yunbo Liu
    •  & Somin Eunice Lee

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    Here, the authors report the design and realization of an in-sensor computing optoelectronic device with programmable spectral responsivity based on an ensemble of cavity-enhanced MoS2 photodetectors. The device can perform direct analog processing during the light detection process, without the need to computationally reconstruct the entire optical spectra.

    • Dohyun Kwak
    • , Dmitry K. Polyushkin
    •  & Thomas Mueller

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    The microscopic origin and valley physics of quantum emitters (QEs) in 2D semiconductors are still not fully understood. Here, the authors report an anomalous magneto-optical behaviour of QEs in WSe2 monolayers coupled to chiral plasmonic nanocavities, suggesting the absence of intrinsic valley symmetry of the emitters.

    • Longlong Yang
    • , Yu Yuan
    •  & Xiulai Xu

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