Nature Photonics contents August 2017 Volume 11 Number 8 pp 453 - 527

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Research Highlights Top 2D materials: Negative refraction | Nanophotonics: Thermoelectric detection | Photodetectors: Laser-defined graphene | Polaritons: Strong surprise | Planar optics: Ultrathin circular polarizer News and Views Top 2D materials: Valley polaritons   pp455 - 456 Gabriele Grosso doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.135 Spin–valley coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides has been shown to persist at room temperature when excitons are coherently coupled to cavity photons. See also: Letter by Dufferwiel et al. | Letter by Sun et al. Free-space communications: Quantum space race heats up   pp456 - 458 Richard J. Hughes and Jane E. Nordholt doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.124 The realization of satellite-to-ground quantum cryptography would make quantum-secured communications possible on a global scale. Four recent breakthroughs suggest that this compelling capability could be achieved by the end of this decade. See also: Article by Takenaka et al. | Article by Liao et al. Integrated optics: Vortex sorter   p459 David Pile doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.137 Silicon photonics: Modulators make efficiency leap   pp459 - 462 Jeremy Witzens doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.127 Significant improvements in the loss and drive voltage of silicon photonics-based optical phase modulators look set to benefit both short-reach and long-distance data communications. See also: Letter by Hiraki et al. | Letter by Han et al. View from... SPP8: The rise of plasmonic metasurfaces   pp462 - 464 Rachel Won doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.136 Ultrathin, versatile, integrated optical devices and high-speed optical information processing could be the upcoming real-world opportunities of plasmonic metasurfaces. Nature Photonics JOBS of the week Academic position in Biochemistry: Chemical Biology Group of Science, Engineering & Technology, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Division of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology Tenure Track Professor in Micro and Nanosciences Aalto University Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professorship in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) More Science jobs from Nature Photonics EVENT The 3rd Int'l Conference on Microwave and Terahertz Technology (ICMTT 2018) 05.01.18 Bangkok, Thailand More science events from Review Top Phase-change materials for non-volatile photonic applications   pp465 - 476 M. Wuttig, H. Bhaskaran and T. Taubner doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.126 Materials whose optical properties can be reconfigured are crucial for photonic applications such as optical memories. Phase-change materials offer such utility and here recent progress is reviewed. Letters Top Evanescent single-molecule biosensing with quantum-limited precision   pp477 - 481 N. P. Mauranyapin, L. S. Madsen, M. A. Taylor, M. Waleed and W. P. Bowen doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.99 An evanescent single-molecule biosensor that operates at the fundamental precision limit, allowing a four-order-of-magnitude reduction in optical intensity while maintaining state-of-the-art sensitivity, is demonstrated. Heterogeneously integrated III–V/Si MOS capacitor Mach–Zehnder modulator   pp482 - 485 Tatsurou Hiraki, Takuma Aihara, Koichi Hasebe, Koji Takeda, Takuro Fujii et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.120 Hybrid silicon optical modulator brings efficiency benefits. See also: News and Views by Witzens Efficient low-loss InGaAsP/Si hybrid MOS optical modulator   pp486 - 490 Jae-Hoon Han, Frederic Boeuf, Junichi Fujikata, Shigeki Takahashi, Shinichi Takagi et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.122 Hybrid InGaAsP/Si optical modulator gives silicon photonics an efficient scheme for phase modulation. See also: News and Views by Witzens Optical control of room-temperature valley polaritons   pp491 - 496 Zheng Sun, Jie Gu, Areg Ghazaryan, Zav Shotan, Christopher R. Considine et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.121 Valley-polarized light–matter quasiparticles in two-dimensional semiconductor microcavities are demonstrated. Access to spin–valley physics may be useful for photonic quantum technologies. See also: News and Views by Grosso Valley-addressable polaritons in atomically thin semiconductors   pp497 - 501 S. Dufferwiel, T. P. Lyons, D. D. Solnyshkov, A. A. P. Trichet, F. Withers et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.125 Researchers excite valley-addressable polaritons in MoSe2 incorporated in a photonic microcavity. Understanding of the valley pseudospin retention is revealed and robust states demonstrated. See also: News and Views by Grosso Articles Top Satellite-to-ground quantum-limited communication using a 50-kg-class microsatellite   pp502 - 508 Hideki Takenaka, Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Mikio Fujiwara, Mitsuo Kitamura, Masahide Sasaki et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.107 The feasibility of satellite-to-ground quantum communication is demonstrated by using a microsatellite in low-Earth orbit. The quantum states are discriminated by a ground receiver with four photon-counters with a quantum bit error rate below 5%. See also: News and Views by Hughes & Nordholt Long-distance free-space quantum key distribution in daylight towards inter-satellite communication   pp509 - 513 Sheng-Kai Liao, Hai-Lin Yong, Chang Liu, Guo-Liang Shentu, Dong-Dong Li et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.116 The feasibility of satellite-assisted quantum communication is demonstrated by a field test on the ground. To supress noise due to sunlight the wavelength of 1,550 nm is chosen, and spectrum and spatial filtering technology developed. See also: News and Views by Hughes & Nordholt High-order multiphoton Thomson scattering   pp514 - 520 Wenchao Yan, Colton Fruhling, Grigory Golovin, Daniel Haden, Ji Luo et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.100 More than 500 near-infrared laser photons are scattered by a single electron into a single X-ray photon. This is the first experimental evidence of high-order multiphoton Thomson scattering and validates the decades-old theoretical predictions. Phonon scattering inhibits simultaneous near-unity efficiency and indistinguishability in semiconductor single-photon sources   pp521 - 526 Jake Iles-Smith, Dara P. S. McCutcheon, Ahsan Nazir and Jesper Mørk doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.101 The efficiency and indistinguishability of single-photon emission by a quantum dot optically coupled to a microcavity and to a waveguide are theoretically investigated. Owing to unavoidable phonon sideband, they can never reach 100% simultaneously. Corrigendum Top Corrigendum: Vectorial optical field reconstruction by attosecond spatial interferometry   p527 P. Carpeggiani, M. Reduzzi, A. Comby, H. Ahmadi, S. Kuhn et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.123 Top Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. The digital version is available here. Find the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia on natureevents.com. 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