Nature photonics vol.6 no.1 2012

ISSN 1749-4885

Celebrating the arXiv

  

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The behaviour of exciton–polaritons

L. V. Butov & A. V. Kavokin

2

New titles at a glance

Antao Chen & Edmond J. Murphy

3

Dissipative polariton solitons: Proof of existence

Nikolay N. Rosanov

6-7

Nanophotonics: Remote on-chip coupling

Jie Gao, James F. McMillan & Chee Wei Wong

7-8

Light sources: Shaking quantum dots

Masahiro Nomura & Yasuhiko Arakawa

9-10

Quantum memory: Phonons in diamond crystals

Charles Santori & Raymond G. Beausoleil

10-12

Sensing: Giant laser gyroscope detects Earth's wobble 

Oliver Graydon

12

Business: Thailand floods disrupt photonics 

Neil Savage

13-14

View from... OSA Frontiers in Optics 2011: How many bits can a photon carry?

David Pile

14-15

Surface plasmon–polariton amplifiers and lasers 

Pierre Berini & Israel De Leon

16-24

Nanoscale spectroscopy with polarized X-rays by NEXAFS-TXM 

Peter Guttmann, Carla Bittencourt, Stefan Rehbein, Polona Umek, Xiaoxing Ke, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, Chris P. Ewels & Gerd Schneider

25-29

Laser mode feeding by shaking quantum dots in a planar microcavity 

C. Brüggemann, A. V. Akimov, A. V. Scherbakov, M. Bombeck, C. Schneider, S. Höfling, A. Forchel, D. R. Yakovlev & M. Bayer

30-34

Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements 

Anton Barty, Carl Caleman, Andrew Aquila, Nicusor Timneanu, Lukas Lomb, Thomas A. White, Jakob Andreasson, David Arnlund, Saša Bajt, Thomas R. M. Barends, Miriam Barthelmess, Michael J. Bogan, Christoph Bostedt, John D. Bozek, Ryan Coffee, Nicola Coppola, Jan Davidsson, Daniel P. DePonte, R. Bruce Doak, Tomas Ekeberg, Veit Elser, Sascha W. Epp, Benjamin Erk, Holger Fleckenstein, Lutz Foucar, Petra Fromme, Heinz Graafsma, Lars Gumprecht, Janos Hajdu, Christina Y. Hampton, Robert Hartmann, Andreas Hartmann, Günter Hauser, Helmut Hirsemann, Peter Holl, Mark S. Hunter, Linda Johansson, Stephan Kassemeyer, Nils Kimmel, Richard A. Kirian, Mengning Liang, Filipe R. N. C. Maia, Erik Malmerberg, Stefano Marchesini, Andrew V. Martin, Karol Nass, Richard Neutze, Christian Reich, Daniel Rolles, Benedikt Rudek, Artem Rudenko, Howard Scott, Ilme Schlichting, Joachim Schulz, M. Marvin Seibert, Robert L. Shoeman, Raymond G. Sierra, Heike Soltau, John C. H. Spence, Francesco Stellato, Stephan Stern, Lothar Strüder, Joachim Ullrich, X. Wang, Georg Weidenspointner, Uwe Weierstall, Cornelia B. Wunderer & Henry N. Chapman

35-40

Macroscopic non-classical states and terahertz quantum processing in room-temperature diamond 

K. C. Lee, B. J. Sussman, M. R. Sprague, P. Michelberger, K. F. Reim, J. Nunn, N. K. Langford, P. J. Bustard, D. Jaksch & I. A. Walmsley

41-44

Generating, manipulating and measuring entanglement and mixture with a reconfigurable photonic circuit 

P. J. Shadbolt, M. R. Verde, A. Peruzzo, A. Politi, A. Laing, M. Lobino, J. C. F. Matthews, M. G. Thompson & J. L. O'Brien

45-49

Observation of bright polariton solitons in a semiconductor microcavity 

M. Sich, D. N. Krizhanovskii, M. S. Skolnick, A. V. Gorbach, R. Hartley, D. V. Skryabin, E. A. Cerda-Méndez, K. Biermann, R. Hey & P. V. Santos

50-55

Strong coupling between distant photonic nanocavities and its dynamic control 

Yoshiya Sato, Yoshinori Tanaka, Jeremy Upham, Yasushi Takahashi, Takashi Asano & Susumu Noda

56-61

A photon-driven micromotor can direct nerve fibre growth 

Tao Wu, Timo A. Nieminen, Samarendra Mohanty, Jill Miotke, Ronald L. Meyer, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop & Michael W. Berns

62-67

Optical guidance 

Michael Berns

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