Nature Photonics contents July 2016 Volume 10 Number 7 pp 429-496

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TABLE OF CONTENTS July 2016 Volume 10, Issue 7 Editorial Books and Arts Research Highlights News and Views Letters Articles Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement Light: Science & Applications received 2014 Impact Factor of 14.603. It is an open access, peer-reviewed journal, publishing fundamental research as well as important issues on engineering and applied sciences that are related to optics and photonics. Submit your manuscript.   Editorial Top Daring to dream   p429 doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.135 The origins of optical fibre communications lie with a paper published 50 years ago. Books and Arts Top New titles at a glance   p430 Optical Properties of Metallic Nanoparticles By Andreas Trügler doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.128 Research Highlights Top Microscopy: Axial super-resolution | Imaging: UV-enhanced SEM | Terahertz sources: Table-top brilliance | Spintronics: Photon-driven spin current | Nanophotonics: Photon transfer on demand News and Views Top Nonlinear optics: Enhanced Brillouin amplification in Si   pp432 - 434 Tom Baehr-Jones, Ruizhi Shi and Daniel J. Blumenthal doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.127 Engineering optical and acoustic modes in membrane silicon waveguides has now been used to demonstrate record high net Brillouin amplification in silicon. This technique enables new possible applications including silicon on-chip Brillouin amplification, Brillouin lasers, and Brillouin devices for signal processing. See also: Letter by Kittlaus et al. Organic optoelectronics: Stable multilevel memories   pp434 - 436 Maryam Ebrahimi and Federico Rosei doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.124 Combining a photochromic molecule with a semiconducting polymer yields an organic non-volatile, multilevel memory with a current output that can be switched and controlled by light. X-rays: Strong coupling of light goes nuclear   pp436 - 438 Brendan Dromey doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.100 Evidence of strongly enhanced coupling of light with nuclei offers the potential to extend applied quantum optics to the hard X-ray regime. See also: Letter by Haber et al. Quantum nonlinear optics: Focus on a single molecule   pp438 - 440 Sarah M. Skoff and Arno Rauschenbeutel doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.126 Tight focusing of two light beams onto an organic molecule opens the way to coherent nonlinear interactions at the few-photon level. See also: Letter by Maser et al. Optical fabrication: Liquid glass   p440 Oliver Graydon doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.123 Photonics EVENT Nano photonics and Micro/Nano Optics International Conference 2016 07.12.16 Paris, France More science events from Letters Top Frequency-domain Hong–Ou–Mandel interference   pp441 - 444 Toshiki Kobayashi, Rikizo Ikuta, Shuto Yasui, Shigehito Miki, Taro Yamashita et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.74 By using a single-photon frequency converter based on quasi-phase-matched LiNbO3, frequency-domain Hong–Ou–Mandel interference is demonstrated between a heralded single photon at 780 nm and a weak laser pulse at 1,522 nm in a single spatial mode. Collective strong coupling of X-rays and nuclei in a nuclear optical lattice   pp445 - 449 Johann Haber, Kai S. Schulze, Kai Schlage, Robert Loetzsch, Lars Bocklage et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.77 Strong coupling between X-rays and matter excitations in arrays of alternating 57Fe and 56Fe layers is demonstrated. The results may open the door to X-ray quantum optics and strong coupling phenomena. See also: News and Views by Dromey Few-photon coherent nonlinear optics with a single molecule   pp450 - 453 Andreas Maser, Benjamin Gmeiner, Tobias Utikal, Stephan Götzinger and Vahid Sandoghdar doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.63 Photons are efficiently funnelled into a single molecule if they are nearly resonant with the sharp molecular transition. In this condition, the coherent nonlinear optical effect can be induced with only a few photons without high-finesse cavities. See also: News and Views by Skoff & Rauschenbeutel All-optical bit storage in a fibre laser by optomechanically bound states of solitons   pp454 - 458 M. Pang, W. He, X. Jiang and P. St. J. Russell doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.102 Optomechanically coupled modes in a fibre laser cavity make it possible to generate and robustly store gigahertz-rate soliton sequences. Removing orientation-induced localization biases in single-molecule microscopy using a broadband metasurface mask   pp459 - 462 Mikael P. Backlund, Amir Arbabi, Petar N. Petrov, Ehsan Arbabi, Saumya Saurabh et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.93 A custom-designed metamaterial mask helps improve the accuracy of microscopy of single fluorescent molecules. Large Brillouin amplification in silicon   pp463 - 467 Eric A. Kittlaus, Heedeuk Shin and Peter T. Rakich doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.112 Net Brillouin amplification is demonstrated in silicon with just 5 mW pumping. Greater than 5 dB amplification is achieved. See also: News and Views by Baehr-Jones et al. Advertisement Nature Chemistry in the community Nature Chemistry is now on Facebook. Like our page to keep up to date with developments in the field and links to the latest research.     Articles Top Polarization control in an X-ray free-electron laser   pp468 - 472 Alberto A. Lutman, James P. MacArthur, Markus Ilchen, Anton O. Lindahl, Jens Buck et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.79 Tunable polarization control and a two-colour X-ray pump–X-ray probe operating mode are demonstrated at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). Near-field dielectric scattering promotes optical absorption by platinum nanoparticles   pp473 - 482 Nan Zhang, Chuang Han, Yi-Jun Xu, Jonathan J. Foley IV, Dongtang Zhang et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.76 A technique to enhance optical absorption by platinum nanoparticles is exploited for driving photocatalytic redox reactions. Efficient metallic spintronic emitters of ultrabroadband terahertz radiation   pp483 - 488 T. Seifert, S. Jaiswal, U. Martens, J. Hannegan, L. Braun et al. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.91 Ultrashort pulses covering the 1–30 THz range are generated from a W/CoFeB/Pt trilayer and originate from photoinduced spin currents, the inverse spin Hall effect and a broadband Fabry–Pérot resonance. The resultant peak fields are several 100 kV cm–1. Optical transduction and routing of microwave phonons in cavity-optomechanical circuits   pp489 - 496 Kejie Fang, Matthew H. Matheny, Xingsheng Luan and Oskar Painter doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.107 Researchers demonstrate microwave phonon waveguide circuits and tunable delay and filter for microwave-photonics signals carried by 1,500 nm wavelength light. Advertisement   Nature Outlook: Research commercialization Universities need to deliver more value for research outlay. 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