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Individual trapped-ion addressing with adjoint-optimized multimode photonic circuits

Melika Momenzadeh
Ke Sun
Maxim R. Shcherbakov
ResearchOpen Access27 Jan 2026
npj Nanophotonics

Volume: 3, P: 1-10
Arbitrary control over multimode wave propagation for machine learning

Photonic processors are limited by the bulkiness of discrete components and wiring complexity. An experiment now demonstrates a reprogrammable two-dimensional waveguide that performs neural network inference through multimode wave propagation.

Tatsuhiro Onodera
Martin M. Stein
Peter L. McMahon
ResearchOpen Access08 Dec 2025
Nature Physics

Volume: 22, P: 164-171
Ultrafast all-optical tuning of direct-gap semiconductor metasurfaces

Metasurfaces are not adjustable after fabrication, and a critical challenge is to realise a technique of tuning their optical properties that is both fast and efficient. Here, Shcherbakov et al. realise an ultrafast tunable metasurface with picosecond-scale large absolute reflectance modulation at low pump fluences.

Maxim R. Shcherbakov
Sheng Liu
Andrey A. Fedyanin
ResearchOpen Access12 May 2017
Nature Communications

Volume: 8, P: 1-6
Thermalized light finds its way

Thermodynamic-like phenomena in optics are a nascent yet elusive route to control light flow. By emulating Joule–Thomson expansion in synthetic photonic lattices, it is now possible to funnel light universally into a single output, regardless of the input.

Mashnoon Alam Sakib
Maxim R. Shcherbakov
News & Views25 Sept 2025
Nature Photonics

Volume: 19, P: 1033-1034
Photon acceleration and tunable broadband harmonics generation in nonlinear time-dependent metasurfaces

Photon acceleration, which can be used to generate tunable high harmonic radiation, typically requires high-intensity lasers and long propagation distances. Here, Shcherbakov et al. show efficient photon acceleration at low power input power from a semiconductor metasurface, less than a micron thin.

Maxim R. Shcherbakov
Kevin Werner
Gennady Shvets
ResearchOpen Access22 Mar 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-9
Nanoscale reshaping of resonant dielectric microstructures by light-driven explosions

Laser machining can modify and reshape materials on the scale comparable to light’s wavelength. Here, authors use tailored microstructures to push the limit of laser machining to a scale that is almost 100 times smaller than a wavelength of light.

Maxim R. Shcherbakov
Giovanni Sartorello
Gennady Shvets
ResearchOpen Access21 Oct 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-9
Phenological shifts of abiotic events, producers and consumers across a continent

The authors use systematic monitoring across the former USSR to investigate phenological changes across taxa. The long-term mean temperature of a site emerged as a strong predictor of phenological change, with further imprints of trophic level, event timing, site, year and biotic interactions.

Tomas Roslin
Laura Antão
Otso Ovaskainen
Research28 Jan 2021
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 11, P: 241-248
Generation of even and odd high harmonics in resonant metasurfaces using single and multiple ultra-intense laser pulses

Strong nonlinearities, like high harmonic generation in optical systems, can lead to interesting applications in photonics. Here the authors fabricate a thin resonant gallium phosphide metasurface capable of avoiding the laser-induced damage and demonstrate efficient even and odd high harmonic generation from it when driven by mid-infrared laser pulses.

Maxim R. Shcherbakov
Haizhong Zhang
Gennady Shvets
ResearchOpen Access07 Jul 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-6
Human gut microbiota community structures in urban and rural populations in Russia

The structure of the human gut microbiota has been shown to vary between populations. Tyakht et al.analyse the gut microbiota assembly from Russian individuals living in urban and rural areas, and compare these with previously studied populations.

Alexander V. Tyakht
Elena S. Kostryukova
Vadim M. Govorun
ResearchOpen Access16 Sept 2013
Nature Communications

Volume: 4, P: 1-9
Ultrafast control of third-order optical nonlinearities in fishnet metamaterials

Alexander S. Shorokhov
Kirill I. Okhlopkov
Andrey A. Fedyanin
ResearchOpen Access23 Jun 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-7
Under- and over-water halves of Gyrinidae beetle eyes harbor different corneal nanocoatings providing adaptation to the water and air environments

Artem Blagodatski
Michail Kryuchkov
Vladimir L. Katanaev
ResearchOpen Access08 Aug 2014
Scientific Reports

Volume: 4, P: 1-6
Photo-induced force microscopy

Photo-induced force microscopy enables nanoscale chemical imaging by detecting optically induced forces between a probe and a sample with sub-nanometre spatial resolution. Photo-induced force microscopy directly senses the light-induced dipolar force with uses in molecular nanoscopy, nanophotonics, polymer science, biology and surface chemistry.

Maxim R. Shcherbakov
Eric O. Potma
H. Kumar Wickramasinghe
Reviews29 May 2025
Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Volume: 5, P: 1-16
Chronicles of nature calendar, a long-term and large-scale multitaxon database on phenology

Otso Ovaskainen
Evgeniy Meyke
Juri Kurhinen
ResearchOpen Access11 Feb 2020
Scientific Data

Volume: 7, P: 1-11

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Individual trapped-ion addressing with adjoint-optimized multimode photonic circuits

Arbitrary control over multimode wave propagation for machine learning

Ultrafast all-optical tuning of direct-gap semiconductor metasurfaces

Thermalized light finds its way

Photon acceleration and tunable broadband harmonics generation in nonlinear time-dependent metasurfaces

Nanoscale reshaping of resonant dielectric microstructures by light-driven explosions

Phenological shifts of abiotic events, producers and consumers across a continent

Generation of even and odd high harmonics in resonant metasurfaces using single and multiple ultra-intense laser pulses

Human gut microbiota community structures in urban and rural populations in Russia

Ultrafast control of third-order optical nonlinearities in fishnet metamaterials

Under- and over-water halves of Gyrinidae beetle eyes harbor different corneal nanocoatings providing adaptation to the water and air environments

Photo-induced force microscopy

Chronicles of nature calendar, a long-term and large-scale multitaxon database on phenology

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