Welcome to Light: Science & Applications
Light: Science & Applications (LSA) publishes high quality optics and photonics research from around the world. The Journal covers fundamental research as well as the important issues in engineering and applied sciences that are related to optics and photonics.
Light: Science & Applications is an open access fully peer-reviewed publication.
Light: Science & Applications has received its 2015 Impact Factor of 13.600.
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Volume 5,
November 2016
ISSN (online): 2047-7538
2015 Impact Factor 13.600*
2/90 Optics
Editor-in-Chief:
Jianlin Cao
Co-Exec Editors-in-Chief:
Tianhong Cui, Stefan Kaierle
*2015 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2016)
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Parity violation in chiral structure creation under femtosecond laser irradiation in silica glass? OpenORIGINAL ARTICLE
Information entropy of coding metasurface OpenORIGINAL ARTICLE
In situ frequency gating and beam splitting of vacuum- and extreme-ultraviolet pulses OpenLATEST RESEARCH SUMMARIES
Chirality: intense laser pulses induce chirality in silica
Intense, ultrashort laser pulses can break the chiral symmetry of pure silica, find scientists in Paris. Bertrand Poumellec and co-workers from Université Paris Sud and Mines de Paris observed that when the energy of a femtosecond laser pulse exceeds a certain value, silica, which is usually achiral, starts to behave in a chiral manner. This introduced chirality corresponds to an optical rotation of about 5 degrees per millimetre, which is large enough to be useful for practical applications. This unexpected symmetry breaking and chiral activity is conjectured to be due to the creation of a dielectric moment non-collinear with the light electro-magnetic field in the silica, which occurs due to a nonlinear interaction between the laser-induced direct-current electric field and the stress field in the material. The researchers anticipate that this effect could provide a new platform for versatile photonic devices.
See related articleMetasurfaces: information analysis
The amount of information held in a reflection from a metasurface coded with a digital pattern can be analysed using the concept of entropy. While metamaterials have been widely used to control electromagnetic waves, they have been little studied from an information perspective. Tie Jun Cui of Southeast University in China and co-workers have discovered that the far-field reflection pattern of a metasurface is the Fourier transform of its coding pattern. Using full-wave numerical simulations, the team studied the behaviour of various metasurface patterns, including periodic, non-periodic and random codes. They found that the amount of information in the far-field reflection is controlled by the coding pattern. The entropy of the far-field reflection pattern increases with increasing entropy of the code. This approach could find application in multi-target radar, imaging systems and multichannel communication.
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Optical disassembly of cellular clusters by tunable 'tug-of-war' tweezers
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High-dimensional entanglement between distant atomic-ensemble memories
Light Sci Appl 5: e16157; doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.157
Ca1−xLixAl1−xSi1+xN3:Eu2+ solid solutions as broadband, color-tunable and thermally robust red phosphors for superior color rendition white light-emitting diodes
Light Sci Appl 5: e16155; doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.155
A single Eu2+-activated high-color-rendering oxychloride white-light phosphor for white-light-emitting diodes
Light Sci Appl 5, e16024; doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.24
Energy transfer in plasmonic photocatalytic composites
Light Sci Appl 5, e16017; doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.17
Tunable synchrotron-like radiation from centimeter scale plasma channels
Light Sci Appl 5, e16015; doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.15
Label-free detection of single nanoparticles and biological molecules using microtoroid optical resonators
Light Sci Appl 5, e16001; doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.1
Correction-free remotely scanned two-photon in vivo mouse retinal imaging
Light Sci Appl 5, e16007; doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.7
News & Highlights
LSA editor, Professor Chunlei Guo leads laser processing research at the new AIM Photonics
Recent Article in LSA Highlighted by Media
Recently, Australia National University posted a press release and YouTube video titled "'Sticky tape and phosphorus the key to ultrathin solar cells", reported Dr Yuerui (Larry) Lu and his team's research in his recently article published in LSA entitled "Optical tuning of exciton and trion emissions in monolayer phosphorene". Followed by these posts, this article was discussed in Nanowerk, R&D Magazine (online), ABC (Australia).
Author of Light: Science & Applications won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
On October 7, 2014, the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was announced. Shuji Nakamura, an author of Light: Science & Applications, won this prize jointly with other two scientists for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, enabling bright and energy-saving white light sources.
Light Conference: ICOME 2014 Explores Latest Research Progress
On July 3, 2014, Light Conference: ICOME 2014 (International Conference on Micro/Nano Optical Engineering 2014) opened in Changchun, with about 200 delegates attending from around the world, including scores of distinguished scientists in this field. The conference was organized by CIOMP in the name of Light: Science & Applications, a co-published journal with Nature Publishing Group (NPG).
Light: Science & Applications Editorial Board Meeting in Changchun
On July 4, 2014, the 2014 Editorial Board Meeting of Light: Science & Applications (Hereinafter referred to as Light) was held on the campus of CIOMP to sum up the editorial work over the past two years and discuss the journal's blueprint for the future. Light is a high quality optics and photonics research journal, co-published by CIOMP and Nature Publishing Group (NPG).
Light: Science & Applications ranks fourth in optics with first impact factor
Light: Science & Applications, the open access journal from Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has today received its first impact factor of 8.476, coming fourth among 82 journals in optics, according to the 2013 Journal Citation Report published by Thomson Reuters, a category that is led by NPG's Nature Photonics. Read more about the news in NPG Press release.
Web Focus: advanced photonic integrated circuits is now live
Light: Science & Applications is proud to present a web focus on advanced photonic integrated circuits, which discusses the range of possible functionalities for these highly integrated optical chips, showing how fundamental work in areas such as transformation optics and materials technologies could lead to new applications for photonic integrated circuits.
Access the web focus today!
LSA Published Paper highlighted on the NFC Website
Prof. John Love accepted the invitation to be the topical editor of Light: Science & Applications
An editorial meeting of the CIOMP-NPG joint journal Light: Science & Applications was held at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on September 16th, 2012. More information.
From March 2012, NPG will publish the new online only, Light: Science & Applications, in partnership with the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP). This journal is fully open access with papers published online within a week of becoming available.
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