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We elucidate the consequences of a phase-matching theory that describes second-harmonic generation of two non-collinear incident light beams that carry orbital angular momentum (OAM). More specifically, the two incident beams generate a…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-06 Thomas Roger , Julius J. F. Heitz , Ewan. M. Wright , Daniele Faccio

We predict a non-thermal magneto-optical effect for magnetic insulators subject to intense light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). Using a classical approach to second harmonic generation in non-linear media with specific symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Thomas Bose , Jamal Berakdar

We show that nonlinear multipolar interference allows achieving not only unidirectional, but also non-reciprocal nonlinear generation from a nanoelement, with the direction of the nonlinearly produced light decoupled from that of at least…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-13 Ekaterina Poutrina , Augustine Urbas

Circular dichroism is a technologically important phenomenon contrasting the absorption and resultant emission properties between left- and right-handed circularly polarized light. While the chiral handedness of systems mainly determines…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-21 Xiuhu Zhao , Jinxing Li , Mingjun Huang , Satoshi Aya

Successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) method is based on the adsorption and reaction of the ions in the cationic solution and the ionic solution, respectively. This method is simple, inexpensive, large-scale deposition,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Ilyass Jellal , Khalid Nouneh , Jaroslaw Jedryka , Denis Chaumont , Jamal Naja

We present a technique for generating light in an arbitrary polarization state. The technique is based on interference of two orthogonally polarized light beams, whose amplitudes and phases are controlled with a Mach-Zehnder inteferometer…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 P. Wlodarczyk , S. Pustelny , D. Budker

High-order harmonic generation by the diffraction of an intense Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) laser beam through a small aperture is studied. It is found that the 2D peripheral electron dynamics on the rim can facilitate complex interplay between…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Yao Meng , Runze Li , Longqing Yi

Second and third harmonic generation in the opaque region of a GaAs wafer is experimentally observed both in transmission and reflection. These harmonic components can propagate through an opaque material as long as the pump is tuned to a…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-13 L. Rodriguez , J. Trull , M. Scalora , R. Vilaseca , C. Cojocaru

Nonlinear light-matter interactions in structured materials are the source of exciting properties and enable vanguard applications in photonics. However, the magnitude of nonlinear effects is generally small, thus requiring high optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-22 Fadil Iyikanat , Andrea Konečná , F. Javier García de Abajo

Second-harmonic generation allows for coherently bridging distant regions of the optical spectrum, with applications ranging from laser technology to self-referencing of frequency combs. However, accessing the nonlinear response of a medium…

We propose and experimentally demonstrate that a Mach-Zehnder interferometer composed of polarized beam splitters and a pentaprism in the place of one of the mirrors works as a linear optical quantum controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate. To perform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 J. H. Lopes , W. C. Soares , B. L. Bernardo , D. P. Caetano , Askery Canabarro

We study a 2D system of trion-polaritons at the quantum level and demonstrate that for monolayer semiconductors they can exhibit a strongly nonlinear optical response. The effect is due to the composite nature of trion-based excitations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 O. Kyriienko , D. N. Krizhanovskii , I. A. Shelykh

The method proposed in [I.R. Khairulin et al., JETP Letters 117(9), 652 (2023)] for converting the linearly polarized radiation of high-order harmonics of an optical field into the circularly polarized in an optically modulated active…

We consider theoretical models of the nanolaser and logic gates on carbon nanotubes (CNTs). In our work, it is shown at pumping the nanoresonator of the nanolaser on CNT by optical radiation using a quantum dot as nano light emitted diode…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-18 I. V. Dzedolik , S. V. Tomilin

Nonlinear processes lie at the heart of many technologies such as frequency converters and entangled photon sources. Historically, observation and manipulation of these processes, for instance through nanostructures, has been limited to…

Cavity-free optical nonreciprocity components, which have an inherent strong asymmetric interaction between the forward- and backward-propagation direction of the probe field, are key to produce such as optical isolators and circulators.…

A new device to generate polarization-entangled light in the continuous variable regime is introduced. It consists of an Optical Parametric Oscillator with two type-II phase-matched non-linear crystals orthogonally oriented, associated with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Julien Laurat , Gaëlle Keller , Claude Fabre , Thomas Coudreau

Despite fundamentally challenging in integrated (nano)photonics, achieving chip-based light nonreciprocity becomes increasingly urgent in signal processing and optical communications. Because of material incompatibilities in conventional…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-23 Shiyue Hua , Jianming Wen , Xiaoshun Jiang , Qian Hua , Liang Jiang , Min Xiao

All-optical logic gates have significantly advanced over a diverse range of photonic systems, boosted by intricate nonlinearities that facilitate the engineering of complex logic operations. Here, we demonstrate that in semiconductor…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Tobias Schneider , Stefan Schumacher , Xuekai Ma

The phonon-polariton spectrum in dielectric medium with the third order nonlinearity was theoretically obtained. Dependence of number of polariton spectrum branches on intensity of electromagnetic field was investigated. The appearance of…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-08 I. V. Dzedolik , O. S. Karakchieva