The authors comment on a recent significant advancement in developing a chiral sensor that is both...

Optical vortices, characterized by their infinite orthogonal eigenmodes—such as orbital angular momentum (OAM) and cylindrical vector beam (CVB) modes—offer unprecedented opportunities for advancing optical communication systems.

Spatial photonic Ising machines (SPIMs) are promising computation devices that can be used to find the ground states of different spin Hamiltonians and solve large-scale optimization problems. The photonic architecture leverages t

Twisted optical fibers are a promising platform for manipulating circularly polarized light and orbital angular momentum beams for applications such as nonlinear frequency conversion, optical communication, or chiral sensing. Howe

Optical neural networks have emerged as feasible alternatives to their electronic counterparts, offering significant benefits such as low power consumption, low latency, and high parallelism. However, the realization of ultra-comp

Recent progress in direct photodetection of light orbital angular momentum (OAM) based on the orbital photogalvanic effect (OPGE) provides an effective way for on-chip direct electric readout of orbital angular momentum, as well a

Flatbands are of significant interest due to their potential for strong energy confinement and their ability to facilitate strongly correlated physics such as unconventional superconductivity and fractional quantum Hall states. Wh

Metalenses have exhibited significant promise across various applications due to their ultrathin, lightweight, and flat architecture, which allows for integration with microelectronic devices. However, their overall imaging capabi

Lightweight augmented reality (AR) eyeglasses have been increasingly integrated into human daily life for navigation, education, training, healthcare, digital twins, maintenance, and entertainment, just to name a few. To facilitat

The femtosecond laser direct writing technique is a highly precise processing method that enables the rapid fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) micro- and nanoscale photonic structures in transparent materials. By focusing ultra

Lead halide perovskites have started a new era for solar cells. However, the toxicity of lead poses a challenge for their practical applications. Replacing lead with tin provides a feasible way to reduce the toxicity of lead perov

The rapid advancement of renewable energy technologies is essential for combating global climate change and achieving energy sustainability. Among the various renewable sources, solar energy stands out, with silicon playing a pivo

Metasurface modeling, designs, and applications using computational approaches are by now well established as an essential pillar in photonics, physics, and materials science. The past years have witnessed tremendous advances in m

Photonic devices that exhibit both sensitivity and robustness have long been sought; yet, these characteristics are thought to be mutually exclusive; through sensitivity, a sensor responds to external stimuli, whereas robustness e

Hyperbolic materials are highly anisotropic optical media that provide valuable assistance in emission engineering, nanoscale light focusing, and scattering enhancement. Recently discovered organic hyperbolic materials (OHMs) with

Landau–Zener (LZ) tunneling, i.e., the nonadiabatic level transition under strong parameter driving, is a fundamental concept in modern quantum mechanics. With the advent of non-Hermitian physics, research interest has been paid t

Super-resolution microscopy techniques have revolutionized biological imaging by breaking the optical diffraction limit, yet most methods rely on fluorescent labels that provide limited chemical information. Although vibrational i

Although predicting light scattering by homogeneous spherical particles is a relatively straightforward problem that can be solved analytically, manipulating and studying the scattering behavior of non-spherical particles is a mor