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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.