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Nature Photonics, vol. 4 #7, pp403-403

News and Views: Femtosecond combs: Simplified stabilization

Frequency combs are created by stabilizing the evolution of the carrier?envelope phase of a mode-locked laser. Researchers have now demonstrated a simplified method of creating frequency combs that enables trains of identical pulses to be easily produced.

Nature Photonics, vol. 4 #7, pp410-411

News and Views: Photonic crystal lasers: On-chip beam steering

A composite photonic crystal that allows on-chip control over the emission direction of a semiconductor laser diode looks set to benefit mobile projection displays, lasers printers and chip-to-chip optical communication.

Nature Photonics, vol. 4 #7, pp411-412

News and Views: Optical gratings: Nano-engineered lenses

High-performance, ultracompact lenses are needed in the quest to miniaturize optical systems. It now seems that carefully engineered subwavelength gratings can function as almost perfect mirrors with custom-designed focusing properties.

Nature Photonics, vol. 4 #7, pp413-415

News and Views: Temporal cavity solitons: Buffering optical data

Packets of light persisting in a continuously driven nonlinear resonator in the time domain offer new possibilities not only for applications in all-optical storage, pulse reshaping and wavelength conversion, but also for fundamental experiments in nonlinear science.

Nature Photonics, vol. 4 #7, pp415-417

News and Views: Attosecond optics: Easing attosecond generation

A new gating scheme based on polarization control and second-harmonic generation is greatly simplifying the production of isolated attosecond pulses.

Nature Photonics, vol. 4 #7, pp417-418

News and Views: View from... SPIE Photonics Europe 2010: Champion innovations

Europe has always been a hub of innovation for photonics, and this year's Photonics Europe conference has shown that young inventors are still coming up with great ideas for commercialization.

Nature Photonics, vol. 4 #7, pp418-420

Profile: Working together

Developing new sensor technology requires knowledge from every area of science and engineering. Nadya Anscombe finds out how this is done at the National Centre for Sensor Research in Ireland.

Nature Photonics, vol. 4 #7, pp426-427



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