Nanophotonics offers opportunities for engineering and exploiting the quantum properties of
light by integrating quantum emitters into nanostructures, and offering reliable paths to …

The unique properties of light underpin the visions of photonic quantum technologies,
optical interconnects and a wide range of novel sensors, but a key limiting factor today is …

Compressing the optical field to the atomic scale opens up possibilities for directly observing
individual molecules, offering innovative imaging and research tools for both physical and …

As a two-dimensional planar material with low depth profile, a metasurface can generate
non-classical phase distributions for the transmitted and reflected electromagnetic waves at …

Despite tremendous progress in research on self-assembled nanotechnological building
blocks, such as macromolecules, nanowires and two-dimensional materials, synthetic self …

Nanophononics has the potential for information transfer, in an analogous manner to its
photonic and electronic counterparts. The adoption of phononic systems has been limited …

Confining photons in cavities enhances the interaction between light and matter. In cavity
optomechanics, this enables a wealth of phenomena ranging from optomechanically …

In the last decades, nanostructures have unlocked myriads of functionalities in
nanophotonics by engineering light–matter interaction beyond what is possible with …

Nanolasers based on emerging dielectric cavities with deep sub‐wavelength confinement of
light offer a large light‐matter coupling rate and near‐unity spontaneous emission factor, β β …

We use topology optimization and adjoint sensitivity analysis to inversely design plasmonic
nanoapertures for nanoparticle optical trapping. Surprisingly, our algorithm produces a …