Ferromagnet-like binary switching of a Stoner–Wohlfarth antiferromagnet
The response of magnetization to external stimuli has drawn attention for more than a century, providing fundamental insights…
Low-power integrated optical amplification through second-harmonic resonance
Desurvire, E. Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Principles and Applications (Wiley, 1994). Tse, M. et al. Quantum-enhanced advanced LIGO detectors…
Coherent nonlinear X-ray four-photon interaction with core-shell electrons
Mukamel, S., Healion, D., Zhang, Y. & Biggs, J. D. Multidimensional attosecond resonant X-ray spectroscopy of molecules: lessons…
All-optical modulation with single photons using an electron avalanche
Northup, T. E. & Blatt, R. Quantum information transfer using photons. Nat. Photon. 8, 356–363 (2014). Article CAS …
Attosecond physics in optical near fields
Experiment We use an amplified erbium fibre oscillator system as the laser source with a 170-fs pulse duration…
Self-compressed waveform-stable light transients enabling water-window attosecond spectroscopy
We first demonstrate the creation and field-resolved characterization of light transients, focusing on generating sub-cycle pulses. For this…
US scientists show light can move atoms in 2D semiconductors
Light isn’t just illuminating materials anymore, it’s moving them. Scientists at Rice University have discovered that beams of…
Quadrature-dependent lattice dynamics of dissipative microcombs
McDonald, A., Pereg-Barnea, T. & Clerk, A. A. Phase-dependent chiral transport and effective non-Hermitian dynamics in a bosonic…
Charge transfer governed interlayer magnetic coupling and symmetry breaking in a van der Waals magnet
Magnetic hysteresis switching in trilayer CrSBr devices Figure 1a shows the structure of a 3L CrSBr back-gate device. The…
Fano interference of photon pairs from a metasurface
Materials with zinc-blende crystalline structure, such as GaAs, AlGaAs, GaP, InGaP, etc, are particularly attractive for non-linear wave…
Temporal characterization of tunable few-cycle vacuum ultraviolet pulses
Krausz, F. & Ivanov, M. Attosecond physics. Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 163–234 (2009). Article ADS Google Scholar Lépine,…
All-optical polarization encoding and modulation by nonlinear interferometry at the nanoscale
Neshev, D. N. & Miroshnichenko, A. E. Enabling smart vision with metasurfaces. Nat. Photonics 17, 26–35 (2023). Article …