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Nature Photonics contents March 2017 Volume 11 Number 3 pp 139 - 206

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March 2017 Volume 11, Issue 3

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Scrutinizing lasers   p139
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.28
Lasers play a pivotal role in photonics, but claims of lasing are not always as robust and informative as they should be. A new trial policy at Nature Photonics aims to rectify this shortcoming.

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New titles at a glance   p140
Singular Optics By Gregory J. Gbur
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.21

Research Highlights

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X-ray science: Unexpected diffraction | Optical imaging: Light scattering on tape | Spectroscopy: Probing antimatter | Integrated circuits: Chip-scale frequency synthesizer | Metrology: Timing is everything

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Luminescent solar concentrators: Semiconductor solution   pp143 - 144
Michael Debije
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.20
Reabsorption losses have long been holding back the commercial viability of luminescent solar concentrators. Now, non-toxic silicon-based quantum dots with enhanced Stokes shift may enable the technology to enjoy practical implementation.

See also: Article by Meinardi et al.

Light scattering: Raman shines back   pp144 - 146
Sergey E. Skipetrov
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.18
Coherent backscattering experiments indicate that spontaneous Raman scattering is a coherent process that can lead to macroscopically observable interference phenomena in disordered solid-state samples.

See also: Article by Fazio et al.

View from... NANOMETA 2017: A question of topology   pp146 - 147
Oliver Graydon
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.19
The mathematics of manifolds is providing inspiration for creating exotic states of light with unique properties such as robustness against disorder and unidirectional propagation.

Fundamental optics: Photonic bound states   p148
Noriaki Horiuchi
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.17

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Near-zero refractive index photonics   pp149 - 158
Iñigo Liberal & Nader Engheta
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.13
The underlying principles and unique optical applications of structures exhibiting near-zero dielectric permittivity and/or magnetic permeability are reviewed. The timely relevance to nonlinear, non-reciprocal and non-local effects is highlighted.

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Passively mode-locked laser with an ultra-narrow spectral width   pp159 - 162
Michael Kues, Christian Reimer, Benjamin Wetzel, Piotr Roztocki, Brent E. Little et al.
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.271
A passively mode-locked laser system featuring cavity filtering and cavity-enhanced nonlinear interactions within an integrated microring resonator produces nanosecond optical pulses with a spectral width of 104.9 MHz.

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Background suppression in fluorescence nanoscopy with stimulated emission double depletion   pp163 - 169
Peng Gao, Benedikt Prunsche, Lu Zhou, Karin Nienhaus and G. Ulrich Nienhaus
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.279
Stimulated emission double depletion addresses the issue of background in super-resolution imaging and quantitative microscopy through implementation of a two-pulse sequence in a modified stimulated emission depletion set-up. The measured background intensity is removed from each voxel in the acquired images thanks to time-resolved detection.

Coherent backscattering of Raman light   pp170 - 176
Barbara Fazio, Alessia Irrera, Stefano Pirotta, Cristiano D'Andrea, Salvatore Del Sorbo et al.
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.278
Constructive interference is observed in the inelastically backscattered Raman radiation from nanostructured media. The effect is studied at a macroscopic scale and is explained in the context of Rayleigh–Raman random walks inside strongly scattering materials.

See also: News and Views by Skipetrov

Highly efficient luminescent solar concentrators based on earth-abundant indirect-bandgap silicon quantum dots   pp177 - 185
Francesco Meinardi, Samantha Ehrenberg, Lorena Dhamo, Francesco Carulli, Michele Mauri et al.
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.5
Reabsorption losses in luminescent solar concentrators can be avoided by the use of indirect-bandgap semiconductor nanostructures. The technology has been used to demonstrate flexible luminescent solar concentrators with performance comparable to flat concentrators.

See also: News and Views by Debije

Ultrahigh-definition dynamic 3D holographic display by active control of volume speckle fields   pp186 - 192
Hyeonseung Yu, KyeoReh Lee, Jongchan Park and YongKeun Park
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.272
Control of speckle fields yields high-definition 3D holographic images.

Charge-integrating organic heterojunction phototransistors for wide-dynamic-range image sensors   pp193 - 199
Adrien Pierre, Abhinav Gaikwad and Ana Claudia Arias
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.15
A solution-processed organic phototransistor is operated at 100-frame-per-second rates with external quantum efficiencies above 100%. Dynamic range as high as 103 dB was shown for 30-frame-per-second operation.

Electric field-induced second-order nonlinear optical effects in silicon waveguides   pp200 - 206
E. Timurdogan, C. V. Poulton, M. J. Byrd and M. R. Watts
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.14
The application of d.c. fields across p–i–n junctions in silicon ridge waveguides leads to crystal symmetry breaking. This induces a second-order optical nonlinear susceptibility that enables phase-only modulation and second-harmonic generation with an efficiency of ∼13% W–1 at 2.29 µm.

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