Pub Date : 2024-08-08DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01501-3
Qiangbing Guo, Qiuhong Zhang, Tan Zhang, Jun Zhou, Shumin Xiao, Shijie Wang, Yuan Ping Feng, Cheng-Wei Qiu
Polarization, a fundamental property of light, has been widely exploited from quantum physics to high-dimensional optics. Materials with intrinsic optical anisotropy, such as dichroism and birefringence, are central to light polarization control, including the development of polarizers, waveplates, mirrors and phase-matching elements. Therefore, materials with strong optical anisotropy have been long-sought. Recently, two-dimensional van der Waals crystals show high optical anisotropy but are mostly restricted to the out-of-plane direction, which is challenging to access in optical engineering. Here we report a two-dimensional van der Waals material, NbOCl2, that exhibits sharp electronic and structural contrast between its in-plane orthogonal axes. Colossal in-plane optical anisotropy—linear dichroism (up to 99% in ultraviolet) and birefringence (0.26–0.46 within a wide visible–near-infrared transparency window)—is experimentally demonstrated. Our findings provide a powerful and easy-to-access recipe for ultracompact integrated polarization industries.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01489-w
Marinko V. Sarunic, Cynthia A. Toth
Joseph Izatt’s work advanced the science of imaging in biophotonics and brought optical coherence tomography imaging to the eye care of infants and children and, as live feedback for the surgeon, to ophthalmic microsurgery.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01488-x
Xi Wang
Precise control over doping levels and displacement fields enables the observation of a notable blueshift in the Fermi polaron resonance in trilayer tungsten diselenide. This result highlights the promise of two-dimensional materials for advanced nonlinear optical applications with high tunability.
{"title":"Extreme nonlinear excitonic interactions","authors":"Xi Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01488-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01488-x","url":null,"abstract":"Precise control over doping levels and displacement fields enables the observation of a notable blueshift in the Fermi polaron resonance in trilayer tungsten diselenide. This result highlights the promise of two-dimensional materials for advanced nonlinear optical applications with high tunability.","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141891565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01497-w
Rachel Won
Although three-dimensional laser nanofabrication has become an established and widespread technology, research towards achieving higher resolutions, higher speeds, lower costs, mass production, more material availability and more functionality for this technology continues.
{"title":"Nanoprinting under macro lens","authors":"Rachel Won","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01497-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01497-w","url":null,"abstract":"Although three-dimensional laser nanofabrication has become an established and widespread technology, research towards achieving higher resolutions, higher speeds, lower costs, mass production, more material availability and more functionality for this technology continues.","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141891735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01485-0
Fatih Ömer Ilday
By exploiting nonlinear feedback arising from the interaction of ultrafast laser pulses, self-organized nanolines that appear to defy the limits of diffraction are shown to cut, dice, and structure optical materials, fabricating true zero-order sapphire waveplates and crystalline micro-prisms.
{"title":"Driven by feedback, unlimited by diffraction","authors":"Fatih Ömer Ilday","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01485-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01485-0","url":null,"abstract":"By exploiting nonlinear feedback arising from the interaction of ultrafast laser pulses, self-organized nanolines that appear to defy the limits of diffraction are shown to cut, dice, and structure optical materials, fabricating true zero-order sapphire waveplates and crystalline micro-prisms.","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141891736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01487-y
Su-Hyun Gong, Je-Hyung Kim
A plasmonic platform and a dual gate are integrated in a single-photon emitter made of two-dimensional materials. The combination enables engineered radiative and nonradiative decays, leading to a device quantum efficiency of up to 90%.
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Photodetection over a broad spectral range is necessary for multispectral sensing and imaging. Despite the fact that broadband single-element detectors with high performance have been demonstrated with various low-dimensional materials, broadband focal plane array imagers have been rarely reported. Here we propose a stacked lead sulfide/mercury telluride colloidal quantum dot photodetector configuration with optimized graded energy gaps. This architecture allows for ultrabroadband spectral response from 0.4 to 5.0 µm, with responsivity values of 0.23, 0.31, 0.83 and 0.71 A W−1 at 0.4, 0.7, 2.2 and 4.2 µm, respectively. We also fabricate a focal plane array imager with a resolution of 640 × 512, a low photoresponse non-uniformity down to 6% and a noise equivalent temperature difference as low as 34 mK. We demonstrate broadband imaging by simultaneously capturing both short-wave infrared and mid-wave infrared information, as well as multispectral imaging in the red, green, blue, short-wave infrared and mid-wave infrared channels, using a set of optical filters.
{"title":"Visible to mid-wave infrared PbS/HgTe colloidal quantum dot imagers","authors":"Ge Mu, Yimei Tan, Cheng Bi, Yanfei Liu, Qun Hao, Xin Tang","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01492-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01492-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Photodetection over a broad spectral range is necessary for multispectral sensing and imaging. Despite the fact that broadband single-element detectors with high performance have been demonstrated with various low-dimensional materials, broadband focal plane array imagers have been rarely reported. Here we propose a stacked lead sulfide/mercury telluride colloidal quantum dot photodetector configuration with optimized graded energy gaps. This architecture allows for ultrabroadband spectral response from 0.4 to 5.0 µm, with responsivity values of 0.23, 0.31, 0.83 and 0.71 A W<sup>−1</sup> at 0.4, 0.7, 2.2 and 4.2 µm, respectively. We also fabricate a focal plane array imager with a resolution of 640 × 512, a low photoresponse non-uniformity down to 6% and a noise equivalent temperature difference as low as 34 mK. We demonstrate broadband imaging by simultaneously capturing both short-wave infrared and mid-wave infrared information, as well as multispectral imaging in the red, green, blue, short-wave infrared and mid-wave infrared channels, using a set of optical filters.</p>","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":35.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141891891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01481-4
Niels Radmacher, Oleksii Nevskyi, José Ignacio Gallea, Jan Christoph Thiele, Ingo Gregor, Silvio O. Rizzoli, Jörg Enderlein
In this study, we integrate a single-photon detector array into a confocal laser scanning microscope, enabling the combination of fluorescence-lifetime single-molecule localization microscopy with image scanning microscopy. This unique combination delivers a twofold improvement in lateral localization accuracy for single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) and maintains its simplicity. Moreover, the addition of lifetime information from our confocal laser scanning microscope eliminates chromatic aberration, particularly crucial for achieving few-nanometre resolution in SMLM. Our approach, named fluorescence-lifetime image scanning microscopy SMLM, is demonstrated through direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy and DNA point accumulation for imaging in nanoscale topography experiments on fluorescently labelled cells, showcasing both resolution enhancement and fluorescence-lifetime multiplexing capabilities.
在这项研究中，我们将单光子探测器阵列集成到共聚焦激光扫描显微镜中，实现了荧光-寿命单分子定位显微镜与图像扫描显微镜的结合。这种独特的组合使单分子定位显微镜（SMLM）的横向定位精度提高了两倍，并保持了其简便性。此外，共焦激光扫描显微镜提供的寿命信息消除了色差，这对实现单分子定位显微镜的几纳米分辨率尤为重要。我们的方法被命名为荧光-寿命图像扫描显微镜 SMLM，它通过直接随机光学重建显微镜和 DNA 点积累技术在荧光标记细胞的纳米级形貌实验中进行成像，展示了分辨率增强和荧光-寿命多路复用能力。
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