The state and prospects of the European photonics sector
Plasma mirror self-focusing boosts gamma-ray generation
A milestone toward exawatt plasma optics by Raman amplification
Optical hydrogen sensing across scales
Doped germanium keeps pace with the light field
Mechanochromic tactile sensing
Time to embrace new platforms
The path ahead for organic photovoltaics
Valleytronics on a single chip
A hot-electron-based plasmonic artificial leaf
Attosecond leap in scanning tunnelling microscopy
Silencing pain with infrared light
Breaking the power wall in programmable photonics
Optical–electrical skin sensing
Organic cocrystals offer record photothermal conversion
Harnessing loss for Q-modulated biosensors
Visualizing optical anisotropy.
Relativistic light springs come into focus
Optical shaping of nanoplasma shockwaves
Self-localization aids multiphoton imaging
Chiral interactions inspire investigation
The thin line for optical neural networks towards broad practical relevance
Time-varying photonics enables polarization control
Implosion carving shrinks 3D-printed nanostructures
Watching ionization in a new light
Is ball lightning a relativistic soliton?
Metasurfaces bridge the terahertz gap
Opto-magnetic hands
Single-shot full-field X-ray imaging with 10-nm resolution using hard X-ray free-electron laser pulses
Hard disk drive capacity limits smashed by nanofocusing of plasmons
Colloidal quantum dots shine in the mid-infrared
Unveiling the nanoscale dynamics of electroluminescence
Ytterbium spectroscopy for new physics searches
Fourier ptychography sharpens terahertz imaging
Orazio Svelto (1936–2026)
Microlaser counts single ions
Label-free super-resolution imaging of wavelength-scale areas
Non-destructively measuring loss and gain in photonic chips
Microcombs for the generation of tunable structured microwaves
Industry eyes up new laser opportunities
A quantum walk comb source at telecommunication wavelengths
Single-atomic-ion detection with plasmon-enhanced whispering-gallery-mode microlasers
Large exciton longitudinal–transverse splitting enables room-temperature ultrafast coherent polaritonics in layered perovskite crystals
Twisted fibre photonic Chern insulator.
Topological antennas empower communications.
Back-reflection immunity in CMOS photonics via engineered laser feedback.
Sub-100-nanometre quantum-dot LEDs.
Bragg crystal magnifier enables high-contrast imaging.
Perovskite–silicon solar cells put to test.
Programmable integrated quantum photonics.