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| Optica || [https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-4-12-1526 Endlessly adiabatic fiber with a logarithmic refractive index distribution] || Theoretical discussion and experimental realization of making tapered fibers with very short taper length and low losses.
| Nature Photonics || [http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v11/n5/full/nphoton.2017.58.html Fast silicon photodiodes] || Interesting summary of photodiode technology and limitations. Can response time be increased without sacrificing sensitivity?
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| Optica || [https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-5-3-279 Microresonator isolators and circulators based on the intrinsic nonreciprocity of the Kerr effect] || The Kerr effect causing energy level splitting between CW and CCW modes in microresonators, allowing them to act as an optical isolator. Good references to coupling to the spheres, mode structure, and passive locking.
| Nature Photonics || [http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v11/n4/full/nphoton.2017.32.html Spatial beam self-cleaning in multimode fibres] || The Kerr effect caused by high intensity beams can result in more light coupling into the fundamental mode of a multi-mode fiber, causing minimal beam speckling at the output.
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| Journal Name || [[URL|Title]]] || Description.
| Science || [http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6340/837 Quantum sensing with arbitrary frequency resolution] || NV centers in diamond are used to detect the frequency of oscillating magnetic fields with submillihertz resolution.
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| Journal Name || [[URL|Title]] || Description.
| Physical Review Letters || [https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.223605 Self-Similar Nanocavity Design with Ultrasmall Mode Volume for Single-Photon Nonlinearities] || By coupling light into a cavity with an extremely small mode volume, nonlinear optical effects can be observed with very small numbers of photons.
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| Journal Name || [[URL|Title]] || Description.
| Physical Review Letters || [https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.243201 Ultrafast Magnetization of a Dense Molecular Gas with an Optical Centrifuge] || A new technique allows for magnetization of much denser gases than was previously possible.
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| Journal Name || [[URL|Title]] || Description.
| Journal of Computational Physics || [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021999116306301 Constructing non-reflecting boundary conditions using summation-by-parts in time] || An alternate technique for constructing non-reflecting boundaries, supposedly simpler than current techniques such as perfectly-matched layers (PMLs).
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| Nature Communications || [https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15610 Harnessing speckle for a sub-femtometer resolved broadband wavemeter and laser stabilization] || They demonstrate speckle-pattern based wavemeter with about 1 MHz frequency resolution
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| Nature Communications || [https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15849?WT.feed_name=subjects_physical-chemistry Observing electron localization in dissociating H2+ molecule in real time] || They use pump-probe technique with CEP stabilized ~5 fs long pulses to probe dissociation dynamics of H2+ in femtosecond time scales
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| Journal of the Optical Society of America A || [https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=cleo_qels-2017-FTu3D.2&origin=search Raman-assisted broadband Kerr frequency comb generation in AlN-on-sapphire microresonators] || Four wave mixing is used in a AlN film to build a frequency comb spanning 1.2-2.2 um
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| Nature Communications || [https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms1984 Quantifying the magnetic nature of light emission] || Light emitted from Europium ions is decomposed into parts originating from electric dipole transitions and magnetic dipole transitions
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| Optics Express || [https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-25-11-12935&id=367108 Straightforward method to measure optomechanically induced transparency] || Optomechanically induced transparency is demonstrated without the use of a homodyne field
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| arxiv || [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.00655.pdf Dark state optical lattice with sub-wavelength spatial structure] || Experimental realization of an optical lattice for cold atoms with
sub-wavelength spatial structure
 
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Journal Name !! Article Title !! Description
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| Nature Photonics || [http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v11/n5/full/nphoton.2017.58.html Fast silicon photodiodes] || Interesting summary of photodiode technology and limitations. Can response time be increased without sacrificing sensitivity?
| Optica || [https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-4-12-1526 Endlessly adiabatic fiber with a logarithmic refractive index distribution] || Theoretical discussion and experimental realization of making tapered fibers with very short taper length and low losses.
|-
| Nature Photonics || [http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v11/n4/full/nphoton.2017.32.html Spatial beam self-cleaning in multimode fibres] || The Kerr effect caused by high intensity beams can result in more light coupling into the fundamental mode of a multi-mode fiber, causing minimal beam speckling at the output.
| Optica || [https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-5-3-279 Microresonator isolators and circulators based on the intrinsic nonreciprocity of the Kerr effect] || The Kerr effect causing energy level splitting between CW and CCW modes in microresonators, allowing them to act as an optical isolator. Good references to coupling to the spheres, mode structure, and passive locking.
|-
| Science || [http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6340/837 Quantum sensing with arbitrary frequency resolution] || NV centers in diamond are used to detect the frequency of oscillating magnetic fields with submillihertz resolution.
| Journal Name || [[URL|Title]]] || Description.
|-
| Physical Review Letters || [https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.223605 Self-Similar Nanocavity Design with Ultrasmall Mode Volume for Single-Photon Nonlinearities] || By coupling light into a cavity with an extremely small mode volume, nonlinear optical effects can be observed with very small numbers of photons.

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