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

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

Ultrafast lasers can produce, beyond single-pulse mode locking, a multitude of robust multi-pulse dynamics, including optical soliton molecules. Based on recent experimental advances using smart fiber lasers, this commentary addre

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly impacted photonics, creating a symbiotic relationship that accelerates the development and applications of both fields. From the perspective of AI aiding phot

In general relativity, a gravitational “white hole” is a hypothetical region of space that cannot be entered from outside. It is the reverse of a “black hole” from which light and information cannot escape. We report an optical de

Single-shot volumetric fluorescence (SVF) imaging offers a significant advantage over traditional imaging methods that require scanning across multiple axial planes, as it can capture biological processes with high temporal resolu

X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) are cutting-edge research instruments employed in multiple scientific fields capable of analyzing matter with unprecedented time and spatial resolutions. Time-resolved measurements of electron and

A fundamental challenge in endoscopy is how to fabricate a small fiber-optic probe that can achieve comparable function to devices with large, complicated optics. To achieve high resolution over an extended depth of focus (DOF), t

Single-shot ultrafast multidimensional optical imaging (UMOI) combines ultrahigh temporal resolution with multidimensional imaging capabilities in a snapshot, making it an essential tool for real-time detection and analysis of ult

In vivo microscopic imaging inside a biological lumen such as the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory airways, or within blood vessels has faced significant technological challenges for decades. A promising candidate technology is

Metasurfaces, with their capability to control all possible dimensions of light, have become integral to quantum optical applications, including quantum state generation, operation, and tomography. We utilize a metasurface to gene

Flexible manipulation of chiral terahertz electromagnetic waves holds substantial potential for a wide range of applications, such as terahertz circular dichroism spectroscopy in biomaterials analysis, ultrafast electron bunch man

Distributed acoustic sensors (DASs) can effectively monitor acoustic fields along sensing fibers with high sensitivity and high response speed. However, their data processing is limited by the performance of electronic signal proc

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The emerging discipline of picophotonics explores events on a scale thousands of times smaller than the wavelength of light. A recent work introduces a phase singularity ruler that allows picometer-scale localization metrology in

The commentary discusses work recently published in Physical Review Letters, which reported a nondestructive approach to realizing precise control of p-p stacking at single molecule scale...

The advancement of ultrafast science necessitates diagnostic techniques capable of higher precision and increased dimensionality for few-cycle pulses. As pulses continue to shorten temporally and broaden spectrally, the temporal a

Dense waveguides are the basic building blocks for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Due to the rapidly increasing scale of PIC chips, high-density integration of waveguide arrays working with low crosstalk over broadband wavel

Ultracompact metasurfaces have gained a high reputation for manipulating light fields precisely within a subwavelength scale, bringing great development to the fields of nanophotonics, integrated optics, and quantum technology. Th

Optics is an exciting route for the next generation of computing hardware for machine learning, promising several orders of magnitude enhancement in both computational speed and energy efficiency. However, reaching the full capaci

Recent years have seen significant advances in the study of dissipative soliton molecules in ultrafast lasers, driven by their remarkable connections to a wide range of physical systems. However, understanding and controlling the

Photonic circuits, engineered to couple optical modes according to a specific map, serve as processors for classical and quantum light. The number of components typically scales with that of processed modes, thus correlating syste

With the development of the big data era, the need for computation power is dramatically growing, especially for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), because PDEs are often used to describe complex systems and phenomena

Compact, single-shot, and accurate Stokes polarimetric imagers are highly desirable for imaging at all scales, from remote sensing to biological diagnosis. Recently, polarimetric imaging demonstrated on the metasurface platform is

Topological textures in optics such as skyrmions and merons are increasingly studied for their potential functions in light–matter interactions, deep-subwavelength imaging, and nanometrology. However, they were previously generate