Nature Photonics - CURRENT ISSUE : August 2008 - Vol 2 No 8
- Focus on slow light
- Displays: Telescopic pixels
- Organic LEDs: Extracting emission
- Quantum optics: Entangled photons
LATEST HIGHLIGHTS
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
With the high–definition DVD format war now over, where do we go next? Industry analysts predict a steady growth in Blu–ray disk sales but only after an initial period of time to readjust after the prolonged battle against HD–DVD.
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Slow light
Focus issue
Control over the velocity of light pulses leads to a host of exciting opportunities. In this special Focus issue, we present a collection of articles that describe the evolution of the field, the fundamental physics and the different approaches that are developing.
ADVANCE ONLINE PUBLICATION
Terahertz optics
Letter by Kawano & Ishibashi
All the necessary components for terahertz near–field imaging, that is, an aperture, a probe and a detector, can now be integrated on one cryogenically cooled, semiconductor chip. This scheme enables highly sensitive, high–resolution detection of the evanescent field.
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Plasma accelerators
Article by Hafz et al.
Table–top laser–driven plasma accelerators create electron beams by irradiating gas jets with intense laser light. Achieving stable, high–energy beams is quite a challenge. But now, the first stable gigaelectronvolt–class electron beam using a laser–based accelerator is reported.
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X–ray holography
Letter by Marchesini et al.
X–ray Fourier transform holography using free-electron lasers has the potential to enable nanoscale imaging on the timescale of atomic motion. A technique that dramatically increases the efficiency of this technique could move us a step towards such imaging.
Conference
A report on the Nature Photonics conference, which took place at the end of October in Tokyo. All the presentations that were given at the event are now available.
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