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APL Photonics is the dedicated home for open access multidisciplinary research from and for the photonics community. The journal publishes fundamental and applied results that significantly advance the knowledge in photonics across physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. It welcomes high-quality original contributions to the science of light and the technology that generates, controls, and detects photons.
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May 09 2025
Haijun Wu, Weijie Zhou et al.
Generation of optical skyrmionic beams, topological textures of polarization Stokes vector in the transverse plane and propagating at the longitudinal axis provide a versatile platform for ...
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May 05 2025
Pablo Martínez-Carrasco Romero, Tan Huy-Ho et al.
Silicon photonic integrated circuits offer significant improvements in processing bandwidth, power efficiency, and low latency, addressing the needs of future microwave communication systems. Several ...
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April 16 2025
Tran-Chau Truong, Dipendra Khatri et al.
Yb-doped laser amplifiers have, in recent years, found applications in attosecond science, driven largely by the opportunities associated with high-average-power and high-repetition-rate attosecond ...
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May 07 2025
Huilong Liu, Jiying Huang et al.
Manipulation and control of traveling surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are critical to the realization of high-performance integrated acousto-optic modulators (AOMs). In this paper, we present the ...
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May 02 2025
Jin Li, Kexun Wu et al.
Exceptional points (EPs), representing unique non-Hermitian degeneracies in open systems, have been the focus of significant research due to their remarkable phenomena and applications across various ...
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May 01 2025
Riccardo Degl’Innocenti, Yuezhen Lu et al.
We report on the terahertz (THz) harmonic generation in an active graphene/metamaterial device by using powerful ultrafast table-top THz time-domain spectroscopic systems. Complex nonlinear ...
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May 12 2025
Wenke Jiao, Jingye Chen et al.
We propose and demonstrate a broadband two-dimensional multi-beam optical phased array (MOPA) with four beams based on a Butler matrix on a silicon nitride (Si3N4) platform. A beamforming network ...
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May 09 2025
Haijun Wu, Weijie Zhou et al.
Generation of optical skyrmionic beams, topological textures of polarization Stokes vector in the transverse plane and propagating at the longitudinal axis provide a versatile platform for ...
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May 09 2025
Jiajing Lang, Chenyue Lv et al.
With the introduction of the Lyot–Sagnac filter, the laser enables the coexistence of noise-like pulse (NLP) and dissipative soliton (DS) outputs with switchable wavelength intervals, which is ...
Research trends in single-photon detectors based on superconducting wires
Francesco P. Venza, Marco Colangelo
Few-cycle Yb-doped laser sources for attosecond science and strong-field physics
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A tutorial on optical photothermal infrared (O-PTIR) microscopy
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