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August 2009 Volume 3, Issue 8 | ![]() | ![]() |
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![]() | Filling the green gap p421
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.118
Could a practical green laser diode finally be within sight? The latest research looks optimistic.
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![]() | Laser-driven particle acceleration pp423 - 425
Peter A. Norreys
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.119
The acceleration of charged particles to ultra-high energies by intense laser pulses could be made a reality by petawatt laser facilities. Laser-based approaches promise a low-cost, compact and simple alternative, compared with conventional accelerators.
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![]() | Our choice from the recent literature pp426 - 427
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.120
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| TECHNOLOGY FOCUS: Organic photonics |
![]() The use of semiconducting polymers and organic materials to create low-cost, thin and flexible optoelectronics is set to have a profound impact on the photovoltaic and display sectors. |
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![]() | DuPont's OLED material hits million-hour lifetime p441
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.133
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![]() | Our choice from the recent literature pp442 - 443
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.128
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![]() | Small company, big plans pp444 - 445
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.129
German company Novaled has built a business around a doping technology that increases the efficiency of organic LEDs. Its materials have broken many efficiency records and are being used in a wide range of applications, reports Nadya Anscombe.
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![]() | Organic photovoltaics: Polymer power pp447 - 449
Vishal Shrotriya
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.130
With efficiencies continually improving, polymer solar-cell technology is now leaving the lab and entering the marketplace. Many challenges remain, however, including the development of reliable manufacturing processes and improvement of the lifetimes of these low-cost, flexible cells.
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![]() | Materials processing: Two-photon fabrication pp450 - 452
Maria Farsari and Boris N. Chichkov
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.131
Two-photon polymerization is a 3D nanoscale manufacturing tool that offers great potential for rapid prototyping and the manufacture of photonic devices, tissue scaffolds and biomechanical parts.
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![]() | LED Technology: Organic displays come of age pp453 - 455
David Fyfe
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.132
Eighteen years after the development of the first polymer-based LED display, the technology has finally matured and polymer OLED televisions are just around the corner.
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![]() | OLED displays and organic photovoltaics p457
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.134
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![]() | The organic era p458
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.135
Interview with Marc Baldo
The organic photonics industry has come of age in the past few years. Nadya Anscombe speaks to Marc Baldo from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, about the advances that have been made and the challenges that remain.
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![]() | Silicon nanostructure cloak operating at optical frequencies pp461 - 463
Lucas H. Gabrielli, Jaime Cardenas, Carl B. Poitras and Michal Lipson
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.117
A triangular array of silicon nanostructures is experimentally demonstrated to function as an optical cloaking device, operating in the near-infrared at a wavelength of 1550 nm. This approach could, in principle, be extended to larger areas using fabrication techniques such as nanoimprinting.
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![]() | Tunable bipolar optical interactions between guided lightwaves pp464 - 468
Mo Li, W. H. P. Pernice and H. X. Tang
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.116
Attractive and repulsive optical forces between coupled photonic waveguides are demonstrated - previously, only attractive forces had been observed. The sign of the force can be controlled by varying the relative phase between the guided modes. This effect could be used in planar light-force devices on a CMOS-compatible platform.
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![]() | Phase shaping of single-photon wave packets pp469 - 472
H. P. Specht, J. Bochmann, M. Mücke, B. Weber, E. Figueroa, D. L. Moehring and G. Rempe
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.115
Arbitrary phase control within a single photon wave packet is demonstrated and verified by two-photon quantum interference measurements. Combined with the previously demonstrated ability to control a single photon's amplitude, frequency and polarization, the phase shaping presented here allows for the complete control of single-photon wave packets.
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![]() | Pressure-assisted tip-enhanced Raman imaging at a resolution of a few nanometres pp473 - 477
Taka-aki Yano, Prabhat Verma, Yuika Saito, Taro Ichimura and Satoshi Kawata
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.74
Applying external pressure to a sample molecule via the apex of a sharp nanotip allows tip-enhanced Raman imaging of molecules with a spatial resolution of 4 nm.
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![]() | Static and dynamic wavelength routing via the gradient optical force pp478 - 483
Jessie Rosenberg, Qiang Lin and Oskar Painter
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.137
All-optical wavelength routing based on optical gradient force in mechanically compliant spoked resonators is demonstrated over a wavelength range that is 3,000 times greater than the resonator linewidth. A switching time of less than 200 ns, a tuning efficiency of 309 GHz mW-1 and 100% channel-quality preservation over the entire tuning range is achieved.
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![]() | On-chip push-pull effect p484
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.136
Interview with Hong Tang
Hong Tang from Yale University spoke to Nature Photonics about how attractive and repulsive optical forces in nanophotonic waveguides could help advance integrated photonics and optomechanical systems.
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