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TABLE OF CONTENTS May 2016 Volume 10, Issue 5 Editorial Correspondence Books and Arts Research Highlights News and Views Correction Review Letters Articles Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement Light: Science & Applications received a 2014 impact factor of 14.603. It is an open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing fundamental research as well as the important issues in engineering and applied sciences that are related to optics and photonics. Submit your manuscript   Editorial Top Celebrating philanthropy   p281 doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.90 The 2016 Rank Prize for optoelectronics has been awarded to the inventors of the arrayed waveguide grating. Lord Rank's philanthropy deserves greater recognition. Correspondence Top Photocarrier lifetime and recombination losses in photovoltaic systems   pp282 - 283 Almantas Pivrikas, Bronson Philippa, Ronald D. White and Gytis Juska doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.78 Books and Arts Top New titles at a glance   p284 Tunable Laser Applications Edited by Francisco J. Duarte doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.89 Research Highlights Top General relativity: Gravity of photons | Optomechanics: Reaching room temperature | Microcavities: Slow-light benefits | Spectroscopy: Temporal flexibility | Optical antennas: Reconfigurable resonance News and Views Top Optical sources: A laser for complex spatial modes   pp286 - 288 Robert R. Alfano, Giovanni Milione, Enrique J. Galvez and Lingyan Shi doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.82 A cavity design that makes it possible to directly generate Laguerre–Gaussian modes on demand looks set to benefit applications in microscopy and data communications. See also: Article by Naidoo et al. X-ray imaging: Perovskites target X-ray detection   pp288 - 289 Wolfgang Heiss and Christoph Brabec doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.54 Single crystals of perovskites are currently of interest to help fathom fundamental physical parameters limiting the performance of perovskite-based polycrystalline solar cells. Now, such perovskites offer a technology platform for optoelectronic devices, such as cheap and sensitive X-ray detectors. See also: Article by Wei et al. Quantum optics: A new take on the slit experiment   pp290 - 291 Almut Beige doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.71 A double-slit experiment performed with two rubidium atoms precisely held in an optical lattice inside an optical cavity provides a new platform for exploring quantum effects. See also: Letter by Neuzner et al. Nanophotonics: Momentum in metamaterials   pp291 - 293 Brandon A. Kemp doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.81 Optical forces are increasingly relevant in nanoscale optical science and engineering, but optical momentum in materials is still not fully understood. It is now shown that microstructure details as well as macroscopic optical parameters are important in determining optical momentum. Optical manipulation: Light-driven delivery   p293 Noriaki Horiuchi doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.83 Photonics JOBS of the week Physicist, Plasma and Ultrafast optics, ERC-funded project Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Tenure Track Assistant Professor "Physics in Biomedical Imaging" Technische Universität München (TUM) More Science jobs from Correction Top Correction   p293 doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.92 Review Top Perovskite photonic sources   pp295 - 302 Brandon R. Sutherland and Edward H. Sargent doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.62 The prospects for light-emitting diodes and lasers based on perovskite materials are reviewed. Letters Top Interference and dynamics of light from a distance-controlled atom pair in an optical cavity   pp303 - 306 A. Neuzner, M. Körber, O. Morin, S. Ritter and G. Rempe doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.19 Unconventional interference and statistics of photon fields are studied using two-state 87Rb atoms interacting with photons in an optical cavity. The observations are well described by the Tavis-Cummings model in the strong-coupling regime. See also: News and Views by Beige Electrically pumped continuous-wave III–V quantum dot lasers on silicon   pp307 - 311 Siming Chen, Wei Li, Jiang Wu, Qi Jiang, Mingchu Tang et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.21 The growth of III–V quantum dot lasers directly onto a silicon substrate aids photonics and electronics integration. Quantum key distribution without detector vulnerabilities using optically seeded lasers   pp312 - 315 L. C. Comandar, M. Lucamarini, B. Fröhlich, J. F. Dynes, A. W. Sharpe et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.50 Quantum cryptography immune from detector attacks is realized by the development of a source of indistinguishable laser pulses based on optically seeded gain-switched lasers. Key rates exceeding 1 Mb s−1 are demonstrated in the finite-size regime. Broadband dispersion-engineered microresonator on a chip   pp316 - 320 Ki Youl Yang, Katja Beha, Daniel C. Cole, Xu Yi, Pascal Del'Haye et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.36 Design and fabrication techniques that allow analogous dispersion control in chip-integrated optical microresonators are presented, allowing higher-order, wide-bandwidth dispersion control over an octave of spectrum. Articles Top Resolving the build-up of femtosecond mode-locking with single-shot spectroscopy at 90 MHz frame rate   pp321 - 326 G. Herink, B. Jalali, C. Ropers and D. R. Solli doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.38 Using time-stretch dispersive Fourier transform, scientists directly observe the spectro-temporal dynamics of the mode-locking transition on a single-shot basis over long record lengths of ∼900,000 consecutive pulses. Controlled generation of higher-order Poincaré sphere beams from a laser   pp327 - 332 Darryl Naidoo, Filippus S. Roux, Angela Dudley, Igor Litvin, Bruno Piccirillo et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.37 By exploiting geometric phase control inside a laser cavity to map polarization to orbital angular momentum, a new class of laser that is able to generate all states on the higher-order Poincaré sphere is reported. See also: News and Views by Alfano et al. Sensitive X-ray detectors made of methylammonium lead tribromide perovskite single crystals   pp333 - 339 Haotong Wei, Yanjun Fang, Padhraic Mulligan, William Chuirazzi, Hong-Hua Fang et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.41 Single-crystal perovskite devices 2–3 mm thick exhibit 16.4% X-ray detection efficiency with sensitivity four times higher than α-Se X-ray detectors. See also: News and Views by Heiss & Brabec Near-optimal single-photon sources in the solid state   pp340 - 345 N. Somaschi, V. Giesz, L. De Santis, J. C. Loredo, M. P. Almeida et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.23 A single photon with near-unity indistinguishability is generated from quantum dots in electrically controlled cavity structures. The cavity allows for efficient photon collection while application of an electrical bias cancels charge noise effects. Coherent coupling between radiofrequency, optical and acoustic waves in piezo-optomechanical circuits   pp346 - 352 Krishna C. Balram, Marcelo I. Davanço, Jin Dong Song and Kartik Srinivasan doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.46 Scientists report a piezo-optomechanical circuit platform that combines localized and interacting 1,550 nm photons and 2.4 GHz phonons with photonic and phononic waveguides, enabling new devices for signal transduction between the optical, electrical and mechanical domains. Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. 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