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Advertisement Select Si, Ge, Au and more for Advanced FIB Nanofabrication!   Visit Raith's New Website and learn more about FIB Nanofabrication and IONselect - ionLiNE's New Multi-Species Ion Beam Technology. TABLE OF CONTENTS November 2014 Volume 8, Issue 11 Editorials Books and Arts Research Highlights News and Views Review Letters Articles Interview Advertisement   Looking for an optical detector? Hamamatsu offers a huge selection of devices, including multifunction sensors, silicon photomultipliers, photomultiplier tubes, image sensors, scientific cameras, and more. For selection guides and technical articles to help you with your product search, please visit the Optical Sensors Hub. Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement MARKETPLACE: Great deals on the latest lab equipment New Lab Offers and Product Focus are in! VISIT MARKETPLACE TODAY     Editorials Top Bending the rules   p809 doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.276 The abstract mathematics of topology is generating excitement in photonics. Photonics dominates Nobel Prizes   p809 doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.277 Awards for blue LEDs and super-resolution microscopy announced. Books and Arts Top New titles at a glance   p811 Graphene Quantum Dots By Alev Devrim Güçlü, Pawel Potasz, Marek Korkusinski and Pawel Hawrylak doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.267 Research Highlights Top Silicon photonics: Reconfigurable delays | Optical antennas: Phase-change control | Quantum information: Undetected imaging | Terahertz optics: Silk foam waveguides | Terahertz photonics: Quantum cascade amplifier | Quantum information: Tomography by noise | Isolators: Power up | Quantum emitters: Efficient collection | Quantum physics: Superabsorption | Graphene: Nanophotonic switching cell News and Views Top Supercontinua: Entering the mid-infrared   pp814 - 815 Gunter Steinmeyer and Julia S. Skibina doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.254 The demonstration of chalcogenide fibre-based supercontinuum sources that reach beyond a wavelength of ten micrometres is set to have a major impact on spectroscopy and molecular sensing. See also: Letter by Petersen et al. Spectroscopy: Nanoscale terahertz spectroscopy   pp815 - 817 Hidemi Shigekawa, Shoji Yoshida and Osamu Takeuchi doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.272 The advent of terahertz spectroscopy schemes that offer single-photon sensitivity, femtosecond time resolution and nanometre spatial resolution is creating new opportunities for investigating ultrafast charge dynamics in semiconductor structures. See also: Letter by Eisele et al. Transparent electrodes: Fractal future   p817 Maria Maragkou doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.257 Single photon sources: Silicon magic   pp818 - 819 Igor Aharonovich doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.250 Silicon is the material of choice for modern microelectronics, whereas diamond is a luxurious gem. Now, researchers have demonstrated that silicon impurities in diamond can generate indistinguishable single photons — a requirement for quantum photonics and computing. View from... IQCLSW 2014: Frequency comb cascade   pp819 - 820 Noriaki Horiuchi doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.268 Frequency combs based on quantum cascade lasers are a thriving topic of research and offer the attractive vision of more compact and higher performance comb systems for spectroscopy or metrology. Photonics JOBS of the week Tenure-track and Tenured Faculty Positions University of Central Florida Faculty Positions in Electrical Engineering King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Junior Chairs - University of Bordeaux University of Bordeaux Assistant Professor, Photonic, Optoelectronic or Nanoelectronic Materials Lehigh University Multiple 4-year PhD studentships The University of Manchester More Science jobs from Photonics EVENT SPIE Photonics West 2015 07.02.15 San Francisco, USA More science events from Review Top Topological photonics   pp821 - 829 Ling Lu, John D. Joannopoulos and Marin Soljačić doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.248 Applying the mathematical concept of topology to the wave-vector space of photonics yields exciting opportunities for creating new states of light with useful properties such as unidirectional propagation and the ability to flow around imperfections. Letters Top Mid-infrared supercontinuum covering the 1.4–13.3 µm molecular fingerprint region using ultra-high NA chalcogenide step-index fibre   pp830 - 834 Christian Rosenberg Petersen, Uffe Møller, Irnis Kubat, Binbin Zhou, Sune Dupont et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.213 Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation with a record-breaking spectral coverage of 1.4–13.3 µm is demonstrated by launching intense ultra-short pulses into short pieces of ultra-high numerical aperture step-index chalcogenide glass optical fibre consisting of a GaAsSe cladding and an As2Se3 core. See also: News and Views by Steinmeyer & Skibina Probing the mechanisms of large Purcell enhancement in plasmonic nanoantennas   pp835 - 840 Gleb M. Akselrod, Christos Argyropoulos, Thang B. Hoang, Cristian Ciracì, Chao Fang et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.228 Plasmonic nanostructures enable spontaneous emission enhancement factors of greater than 1,000 — the largest observed to date. The orientation of dipole emitters in nanogaps plays a vital role. Ultrafast multi-terahertz nano-spectroscopy with sub-cycle temporal resolution   pp841 - 845 M. Eisele, T. L. Cocker, M. A. Huber, M. Plankl, L. Viti et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.225 The authors demonstrate ultrabroadband time-resolved THz spectroscopy on a single InAs nanowire with 10 nm spatial resolution and sub-100 fs time resolution. See also: News and Views by Shigekawa et al. A long-range polarization-controlled optical tractor beam   pp846 - 850 Vladlen Shvedov, Arthur R. Davoyan, Cyril Hnatovsky, Nader Engheta and Wieslaw Krolikowski doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.242 Laser-based tractor beams move hollow glass particles over tens of centimetres. Articles Top Access to long-term optical memories using photon echoes retrieved from semiconductor spins   pp851 - 857 L. Langer, S. V. Poltavtsev, I. A. Yugova, M. Salewski, D. R. Yakovlev et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.219 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. See also: Interview with Ilya Akimov All-optical coherent control of vacuum Rabi oscillations   pp858 - 864 Ranojoy Bose, Tao Cai, Kaushik Roy Choudhury, Glenn S. Solomon and Edo Waks doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.224 The authors report an experiment demonstrating fast control of the quantum dot–cavity coupling, indicating the coherent transfer of photons between the cavity and the quantum dot. Ultra-high-density spatial division multiplexing with a few-mode multicore fibre   pp865 - 870 R. G. H. van Uden, R. Amezcua Correa, E. Antonio Lopez, F. M. Huijskens, C. Xia et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.243 A few-mode, multicore fibre allows ultra-high-speed data transmission on a single wavelength of light. Enhancement of laser power-efficiency by control of spatial hole burning interactions   pp871 - 875 Li Ge, Omer Malik and Hakan E. Türeci doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.244 Spatial hole burning typically decreases laser output but the effect can be manipulated by spatially tailored pump profiles to increase laser power-efficiency by orders of magnitude. Interview Top Photon echoes   p876 Interview with Ilya Akimov doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.266 Ilya Akimov talks to Nature Photonics about employing trions in semiconductor quantum wells to store optical information. Top Advertisement Nature has once again been ranked the N0.1 weekly science journal with an Impact Factor of 42.351*. Subscribe to Nature for only $42, £42 or €42. 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