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TABLE OF CONTENTS January 2012 Volume 6, Issue 1 Editorial Correspondence Books and Arts Research Highlights News and Views Review Letters Articles Interview Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement Attending the Photonics West Meeting in San Francisco? Visit us at the Nature Publishing Group booth # 4204 to: * Browse and take free sample copies of leading journals from NPG, including Nature, and Nature Photonics * Save up to 30% on personal subscriptions * Talk to our Advertising Manager about your plans for 2012   Editorial Top Celebrating the arXiv p1 doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.334 The growing popularity of preprint servers is enriching the landscape of scientific communication. Full Text | PDF Correspondence Top The behaviour of exciton-polaritons p2 L. V. Butov and A. V. Kavokin doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.325 Full Text | PDF Books and Arts Top New titles at a glance p3 doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.329 Full Text | PDF Research Highlights Top Solitons: Passive Kerr observation | Solar cells: Fano-enhanced performance | Trapping: A marriage of atoms and ions | Sensors: Photon counting | Quantum optics: Coherent photon conversion | Optical isolators: Single-photon performance | Plasmonics: Optical black hole | Super-resolution imaging: Acoustic help | Optical negative refraction: Nonlinear solution News and Views Top Dissipative polariton solitons: Proof of existence pp6 - 7 Nikolay N. Rosanov doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.324 The experimental observation of bright dissipative polariton solitons in a semiconductor microcavity excited on picosecond timescales paves the way for ultranarrow light-matter localization and next-generation ultrafast information processing. Full Text | PDF See also: Article by Sich et al. Nanophotonics: Remote on-chip coupling pp7 - 8 Jie Gao, James F. McMillan and Chee Wei Wong doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.328 Scientists have demonstrated strongly coupled photon states between two distant high-Q photonic crystal cavities connected by a photonic crystal waveguide. Remote dynamic control over the coupled states could aid the development of delay lines, optical buffers and qubit operations in both classical and quantum information processing. Full Text | PDF See also: Article by Sato et al. Light sources: Shaking quantum dots pp9 - 10 Masahiro Nomura and Yasuhiko Arakawa doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.323 Picosecond acoustic pulses can be used to shift the optical transition energy of a quantum dot towards the resonance frequency of a microcavity, thus temporarily causing the device to lase. This ultrafast modulation technique has significant potential for exploring phenomena throughout quantum physics. Full Text | PDF See also: Article by Brüggemann et al. Quantum memory: Phonons in diamond crystals pp10 - 12 Charles Santori and Raymond G. Beausoleil doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.333 The demonstration that quantum information can be stored in a bulk-diamond crystal in the form of an optically excited phonon gives researchers a new type of mechanical solid-state quantum memory to explore. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Lee et al. Sensing: Giant laser gyroscope detects Earth's wobble p12 Oliver Graydon doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.332 Full Text | PDF Business: Thailand floods disrupt photonics pp13 - 14 Neil Savage doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.331 Telecommunications component manufacturers across the globe have been affected by the recent flooding in Thailand, which has caused manufacturing facilities near Bangkok to shut down. Full Text | PDF View from... OSA Frontiers in Optics 2011: How many bits can a photon carry? pp14 - 15 David Pile doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.330 Quantum physics offers a way to enhance the amount of information a photon can carry, with potential applications in optical communication, lithography, metrology and imaging. Full Text | PDF Photonics JOBS of the week Post graduate scholarship in Complex Quantum Photonics LENS, University of Florence Programme Manager – ICT for Health Tyndall National Institute Project Manager – Physicist – Hampshire Paramount Recruitment Post Doctoral Position in Theoretical Optics / Photonics Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Faculty Positions and Canada Research Chair(s) in Photonics University of Ottawa More Science jobs from Photonics EVENT 12th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference & EXPO SGEM2012 17.-23.06.12 Bulgaria More science events from Review Top Surface plasmon-polariton amplifiers and lasers pp16 - 24 Pierre Berini and Israel De Leon doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.285 Abstract | Full Text | PDF Letters Top Nanoscale spectroscopy with polarized X-rays by NEXAFS-TXM pp25 - 29 Peter Guttmann, Carla Bittencourt, Stefan Rehbein, Polona Umek, Xiaoxing Ke, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, Chris P. Ewels and Gerd Schneider doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.268 Researchers demonstrate a scheme that combines the high spatial resolution of full-field transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM) with high-spectral-resolution near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS). The idea could lead to a wide range of new material studies that combine high-resolution spectroscopic techniques with nanoscale tomographic imaging. Abstract | Full Text | PDF Laser mode feeding by shaking quantum dots in a planar microcavity pp30 - 34 C. Brüggemann, A. V. Akimov, A. V. Scherbakov, M. Bombeck, C. Schneider, S. Hofling, A. Forchel, D. R. Yakovlev and M. Bayer doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.269 Researchers use femtosecond laser pulses to create acoustic pulses that strain quantum dots and modulate their transition energies. When the quantum dots are housed in a microcavity, tuning the quantum dots to the optical resonance of the cavity causes the emission output to be enhanced by more than two orders of magnitude. Abstract | Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Nomura & Arakawa Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements pp35 - 40 Anton Barty, Carl Caleman, Andrew Aquila, Nicusor Timneanu, Lukas Lomb, Thomas A. White, Jakob Andreasson, David Arnlund, Sasa Bajt, Thomas R. M. Barends, Miriam Barthelmess, Michael J. Bogan, Christoph Bostedt, John D. Bozek, Ryan Coffee, Nicola Coppola, Jan Davidsson, Daniel P. DePonte, R. Bruce Doak, Tomas Ekeberg, Veit Elser, Sascha W. Epp, Benjamin Erk, Holger Fleckenstein, Lutz Foucar, Petra Fromme, Heinz Graafsma, Lars Gumprecht, Janos Hajdu, Christina Y. Hampton, Robert Hartmann, Andreas Hartmann, Gunter Hauser, Helmut Hirsemann, Peter Holl, Mark S. Hunter, Linda Johansson, Stephan Kassemeyer, Nils Kimmel, Richard A. Kirian, Mengning Liang, Filipe R. N. C. Maia, Erik Malmerberg, Stefano Marchesini, Andrew V. Martin, Karol Nass, Richard Neutze, Christian Reich, Daniel Rolles, Benedikt Rudek, Artem Rudenko, Howard Scott, Ilme Schlichting, Joachim Schulz, M. Marvin Seibert, Robert L. Shoeman, Raymond G. Sierra, Heike Soltau, John C. H. Spence, Francesco Stellato, Stephan Stern, Lothar Struder, Joachim Ullrich, X. Wang, Georg Weidenspointner, Uwe Weierstall, Cornelia B. Wunderer and Henry N. Chapman doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.297 Researchers describe a mechanism capable of compressing fast and intense X-ray pulses through the rapid loss of crystalline periodicity. It is hoped that this concept, combined with X-ray free-electron laser technology, will allow scientists to obtain structural information at atomic resolutions. Abstract | Full Text | PDF Macroscopic non-classical states and terahertz quantum processing in room-temperature diamond pp41 - 44 K. C. Lee, B. J. Sussman, M. R. Sprague, P. Michelberger, K. F. Reim, J. Nunn, N. K. Langford, P. J. Bustard, D. Jaksch and I. A. Walmsley doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.296 Researchers investigate the optical phonon modes of bulk diamond at room temperature. Ultrafast Raman scattering measurements show an extended and highly non-classical state in the optical phonon modes of bulk diamond. The researchers also demonstrate a terahertz-bandwidth quantum memory based on transient ultrafast Raman scattering from the optical phonons. Abstract | Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Santori & Beausoleil Articles Top Generating, manipulating and measuring entanglement and mixture with a reconfigurable photonic circuit pp45 - 49 P. J. Shadbolt, M. R. Verde, A. Peruzzo, A. Politi, A. Laing, M. Lobino, J. C. F. Matthews, M. G. Thompson and J. L. O'Brien doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.283 Researchers demonstrate a reconfigurable integrated quantum photonic circuit. The device comprises a two-qubit entangling gate, several Hadamard-like gates and eight variable phase shifters. The set-up is used to generate entangled states, violate a Bell-type inequality with a continuum of partially entangled states and demonstrate the generation of arbitrary one-qubit mixed states. Abstract | Full Text | PDF Observation of bright polariton solitons in a semiconductor microcavity pp50 - 55 M. Sich, D. N. Krizhanovskii, M. S. Skolnick, A. V. Gorbach, R. Hartley, D. V. Skryabin, E. A. Cerda-Mendez, K. Biermann, R. Hey and P. V. Santos doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.267 Scientists present the first experimental observations of bright polariton solitons in a strongly coupled semiconductor microcavity. The findings should pave the way to the investigation of a variety of fundamental phenomena, such as interactions between solitons with different spins and the formation of soliton molecules. Abstract | Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Rosanov Strong coupling between distant photonic nanocavities and its dynamic control pp56 - 61 Yoshiya Sato, Yoshinori Tanaka, Jeremy Upham, Yasushi Takahashi, Takashi Asano and Susumu Noda doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.286 Scientists demonstrate strong coupling between distant nanocavities separated by more than 100 wavelengths as well as dynamic control over the coupling state. The strong coupling state can be stopped on demand by irradiating one of the nanocavities with a control pulse, thus freezing the photon state. Abstract | Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Gao et al. A photon-driven micromotor can direct nerve fibre growth pp62 - 67 Tao Wu, Timo A. Nieminen, Samarendra Mohanty, Jill Miotke, Ronald L. Meyer, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop and Michael W. Berns doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.287 Using laser-driven spinning birefringent spheres to create a localized microfluidic flow, scientists show that they can control the direction of growth of individual nerve fibres. The approach is potentially useful for the development of nerve systems, as well as for nerve repair and regeneration. Abstract | Full Text | PDF See also: Interview with Michael Berns Interview Top Optical guidance p68 Interview with Michael Berns doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.335 Laser-driven spinning particles can be used to control the direction of nerve fibre growth. Michael Berns from the University of California at Irvine explains this control mechanism and its potential applications. 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