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427 papers, from 31 August 2026 to 5 November 2026: 369 arXiv preprints and 58 OpenAlex records.
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Volumetric Nanophotonics for Enhanced Scintillation and Remote Light Outcoupling
Nanophotonic patterning is a promising approach to enhancing light extraction in scintillator materials, with the potential to improve performance in applications such as medical imaging and…Signatures of Narrowband and Ultrashort-Pulse-Like Probing in Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Using Twin Beams and Sum-Frequency Generation Readout
We theoretically investigate coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) driven by bright twin beams with sum-frequency generation (SFG) readout.Nonreciprocal coupling enables tunable exceptional-point response in non-Hermitian circuits
Exceptional points (EPs) exhibit characteristic square-root spectral responses to weak perturbations, with response magnitudes governed by configuration-dependent prefactors that are often…Spatial-Mode Selection for Local Mineral Absorption Spectroscopy
Absorption-band depth measures the fractional decrease in mineral reflectance below its local continuum.Th$^{4+}$ ion cluster structures and electric field gradients in $^{229}$Th:CaF$_2$
The low-energy nuclear isomeric transition of $^{229}$Th is a promising frequency reference for a solid-state nuclear optical clock.Focal-Plane Extreme Adaptive Optics for Deep Super Resolution Imaging and Nanolithography
Super resolution optical imaging and nanolithography enable nanoscale observation and fabrication, but high order, spatially varying phase and amplitude aberrations in optically heterogeneous media…Label-free Monitoring of Nucleoid Dynamics of Bacteria for Drug Screening Using Holography
We introduce holographic microscopy (HM) as a compact, low-cost, label-free, non-specific alternative to fluorescence microscopy (FM) for quantifying bacterial physiological responses during drug…Near-Field Engineering of Silica-Shelled Plasmonic Nanoparticles toward Enhanced Near-Infrared Fluorescence
Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent molecules often suffer from low quantum yields, limiting their applications in sensing and imaging.Symmetry-governed nonlinear metasurface simultaneously enhances circular dichroism, helicity purity, and Q-factor
Circularly polarized light underpins a broad range of chiroptical and spin-selective photonic technologies, yet extending resonant chirality to nonlinear harmonic emission remains challenging.Non-Markovian quantum-emitter dynamics and bound-state formation in an Aubry--André--Harper photonic lattice
In non-Markovian light-matter interactions, a spectrally structured bath can alter the evolution of a quantum emitter by modifying the vacuum fluctuations experienced by the emitter.Moiré-enabled chiral plasmons in twisted bilayer graphene nanoislands
Twisting two stacked graphene layers superimposes a moiré superlattice that reshapes their electronic structure, yet how it shapes the collective optical response of finite, nanoscale bilayers…Partially temporal coherent spatiotemporal Laguerre-Gaussian and its propagation dynamics
Optical spatiotemporal vortices carrying transverse photonic orbital angular momentum have become an intense research topic in the recent study of structured light fields.Integrated Circular Polarisation Beam Shaper Based on Tilted Waveguide Bragg Gratings
Scalable quantum platforms require optical systems that deliver well-defined polarisation without relying on macroscopic bulk optics or manual alignment, motivating chip-integrated approaches…Dark-field Search for Quantum Vacuum Signals in the Low-Energy Regime
We report on the experimental details of a dark-field search for light-by-light scattering signals performed at the High Energy Density (HED) instrument of the European XFEL (EuXFEL) in a pump-probe…Edge intelligence for distributed acoustic sensing with ultracompact neural networks
Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) transforms optical fibres into dense arrays of vibration sensors for continuous, long-range monitoring with high spatial resolution.Scattering-force-driven light-sheet fluorescence microscopy for scan-free three-dimensional imaging
Optical manipulation offers a powerful non-contact approach to precise positioning, directional transport and three-dimensional (3D) imaging of microscale objects.Ghosts in the nanomachine: dynamical slowing-down in the phase-space of nanomechanical strings
The linear behavior of micro- and nanomechanical devices has been the topic of intense study over the past years.Non-Bloch Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions with Memory
Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) of periodic chains are determined by real Bloch momenta.Unlimited-Range Absolute Distance Interferometry Outdoors via Tunable Synthetic and Pseudo-Supersynthetic Wavelengths: The TeleYAG-II Interferometer
Absolute distance interferometry requires an unlimited non-ambiguity range to be truly absolute.Multistable nematic liquid crystal pores as reconfigurable optical vortex metasurfaces
Nematic liquid crystals confined in cylindrical pores adopt multiple stable director topologies --- radial, escaped, and arches --- each imprinting a distinct optical signature on transmitted…
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