Articles in 2026

A novel magnetized plasma rotator based on Frequency-Variable Faraday Rotation (FVFR) in the nonlinear plasma wake is put forward, which can manipulate efficiently the polarization of relativistic mid to far-infrared optical pulses and even THz waves.

Laser-printed gold metasurface supporting symmetry-protected plasmonic quasi-bound states in the continuum (qBIC) was fabricated, comprehensively characterized and applied to demonstrate the first qBIC-empowered field-effect transistor device with HgTe quantum dot active medium.

We establish operator-enabled holography as a new paradigm, transcending intrinsic physical dimensions of light to achieve high-capacity and high-security multiplexing.

Alloying formamidinium into the A-site of red-emitting CsPbI₃ perovskite nanoplatelets enhances their long-term stability and production of linearly polarized light through improved superlattice formation, offering a pathway towards reliable polarized light sources.

Electrically tunable strong coupling is achieved at ambient conditions in an excitonic metasurface, enabling 9.9 dB of free-space optical modulation.

Epitaxial BaTiO₃ on LSAT shows large Pockels coefficients via polymorphic phase boundaries, enabling low-voltage, high-speed electro-optic modulators.

Sample priors enable point spread function decoupling in computational fluorescence microscopy, improving system characterization and imaging quality.

A representation of ultrawideband PVDF/co-polymer-based ultrasound (US) transducer technology for high-frequency hemispherical optoacoustic tomography and its potential use in hand vascular, dental, ophthalmic, and endoscopic applications.

Examples on the utility of single-pixel complex-field microscopy with frequency-comb acousto-optic coherent encoding (FACE-SPCM) as demonstrated by Wu et al., by phase imaging inside a microfluidic device. Left: Droplet formation with water and oil as dispersed and carrier medium, respectively. Center: Chemical reaction between acetic acid and baking soda. Right: non-reactive liquid mixing of ethanol and pure water. FACE-SPCM images adapted from Wu et al.¹

Inspired by human vision, a MoS₂ phototransistor with gate-tunable sensitivity enables precise detection of low-contrast targets and strong noise suppression for next-generation intelligent machine vision systems.

We demonstrate a 3D generalized vector vortex array generation with full polarization, phase, OAM, and spatial control, by using joint optimization in different diffraction orders based on a single-layer metasurface.

High-performance optoelectronic Ising machine with 4,096 spins achieves superior accuracy, speed, and stability, solving benchmark and real-world traffic optimization problems beyond conventional computing.

QEPAS and LITES, collectively called quartz-enhanced laser spectroscopy technology, may bring a paradigm shift in gas sensing for applications.

The strong modulation introduces coherent-multiple-transition into discrete time quantum walks in the frequency space, inducing topological band and fast quantum gate operations.

SUANPAN: A programmable and reconfigurable photonic linear vector machine with extreme scalability formed by a series of emitter-detector pairs as the independent basic computing units and implemented through time-space encoding.