Articles in 2014

Exploiting the 'memory' properties of scattered light allows for single-shot imaging through thin opaque layers, including biological tissue.

London hosted this year's Photon conference. Quantum optics and improved technology commercialization in the UK were two key points of discussion.

The development of high-performance red-emitting phosphors provides new opportunities for fabricating white LEDs with both high colour rendering index and high luminous efficacy.

Quantum teleportation is achieved on a photonic chip, paving the way for scalable quantum information processing based on linear optical networks.

Ori Katz and Sylvain Gigan explain to Nature Photonics how a well-known astronomy technique has been adapted for imaging through turbid media, with great potential for bio-imaging applications.

Smartphones that have been cleverly 'accessorized' are starting to offer a convenient and cost-effective alternative to conventional laboratory-based imaging and sensing equipment.

The authors demonstrate a technique for coherently transferring quantum information from the orbital to the spin degrees of freedom of electrons in a semiconductor, and back again.

Curious wave phenomena that occur in optical fibres due to the interplay of instability and nonlinear effects are reviewed.

Quantum teleportation of the state of a qubit encoded in the polarization state is demonstrated from a telecom-wavelength photon to a solid-state quantum memory via 24.8 km of optical fibre. It is the longest distance ever reached in a teleportation experiment involving a quantum memory.