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most citedGWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

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physics.optics2026

Frequency locking in lasing ZnO nanowire pairs

Ann-Kathrin Kollak, Lukas R. Jäger, Hark Hoe Tan +1

Frequency locking between coupled laser systems provides a powerful mechanism for stabilizing and controlling coherent emission, yet its implementation and applicability down to th…

physics.optics2026

Insights into the Nature of Quantum Emitters in Electron-Irradiated hexagonal Boron Nitride

Mouli Hazra, Anna Rupp, Mohammad N. Mishuk +10

Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as a promising solid-state platform for quantum technology applications. However, a persistent challenge in the field…

physics.optics2026

Discrete Cavity Dynamics in Free-Space Brillouin Laser

Jiabao Peng, Longjie Zhang, Zhenxu Bai +2

Highly coherent lasers are central to modern photonics. To date, high-coherence operation has been achieved predominantly in microcavity and fiber-based platforms. More recently, f…

physics.optics2026

Giant Brillouin gain in frozen CS2 capillaries

Simon Seiderer, Andreas Geilen, Luan N. Sliwa +5

Stimulated Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering offers exceptional capabilities for photonic signal processing, but current platforms demand performance trade-offs between long interact…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Simulating vacuum birefringence with a diffractive beam propagation code

Aimé Matheron, Michal Šmíd, Matt Zepf +1

Ninety years after their prediction, quantum vacuum nonlinearities in macroscopic electromagnetic fields still await a direct experimental verification in the laboratory. A particu…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Quantum Phase Gradient Imaging Using a Nonlocal Metasurface System

Jinliang Ren, Jinyong Ma, Katsuya Tanaka +4

Quantum phase imaging enables the analysis of transparent samples with thickness and refractive index variations in scenarios requiring precise measurements under low-light conditi…