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Single particle-resolved fluorescence imaging is an enabling technology in cold-atom physics. However, so far, this technique was not available for nanophotonic atom-light interfaces. Here, we image single atoms that are trapped and…
Label-free biosensors enable the monitoring of biomolecular interactions in real-time, which is key to the analysis of the binding characteristics of biomolecules. While refractometric optical biosensors are sensitive and well-established,…
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