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We theoretically demonstrate the generation and radiation of coherent nanoplasmons powered by a single three-level quantum emitter on a plasmonic nanoresonator. By pumping the three-level emitter in a Raman configuration, we show a pathway…

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We report on experimental and numerical implementations of devices based on the negative refraction of elastic guided waves, the so-called Lamb waves. Consisting in plates of varying thickness, these devices rely on the concept of…

We introduce an absorption imaging technique for ultracold gases that suppresses interference fringes and coherence-induced artifacts by reducing the transverse spatial coherence of the imaging light. The method preserves the narrow…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-16 Julia Fekete , Poppy Joshi , Peter Krüger , Fedja Oručević

In this paper, we exploit the metagrating paradigm to achieve coherent control of absorption and reflection in a two-port device. Employing graphene ribbon as a tunable element allows us to, for the first time, realize a reconfigurable…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ensiye Ghorbanpour , Sahar Behroozinia , Ali Abdolali

Polarized optical microscopy and spectroscopy are progressively becoming key methods for the high-throughput characterization of individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and other one-dimensional nanostructures, on substrate and in devices. The…

Metamaterial-based perfect absorbers promise many applica- tions. Perfect absorption is characterized by the complete suppression of transmission and reflection and complete dissipation of the incident energy by the absorptive meta-atoms. A…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rasoul Alaee , Mohamed Farhat , Carsten Rockstuhl , Falk Lederer

In nanomechanical photothermal absorption spectroscopy and microscopy, the measured substance becomes a part of the detection system itself, inducing a nanomechanical resonance frequency shift upon thermal relaxation. Suspended,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-30 Robert G. West , Kostas Kanellopulos , Silvan Schmid

In this paper, we propose a switchable high-Q light absorber based on a reconfigurable metasurface enabled by a lowloss phase-change material (PCM). By leveraging the coupling between guided-mode resonance and Fabry-Perot modes, mediated by…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-13 Kai Qi , Guoxiang Wang , Xiang Shen , Yixiao Gao

Carbon nanotubes provide a rare access point into the plasmon physics of one-dimensional electronic systems. By assembling purified nanotubes into uniformly sized arrays, we show that they support coherent plasmon resonances, that these…

Polarizers are essential in diverse photonics applications including display [1], microscopy [2], polarimetric astrophysical observation [3], laser machining [4], and quantum information processing [5]. Whereas conventional polarizers based…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-09 Jae Woong Yoon , Kyu Jin Lee , Robert Magnusson

Disentangling reaction mechanisms in weakly bound nuclei remains a long-standing challenge, often compounded by the treatment of absorption as an incoherent sum of channel contributions. Within the Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channels…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Hao Liu , Jin Lei , Zhongzhou Ren

We derive periodic multilayer absorbers with effective uniaxial properties similar to perfectly matched layers (PML). This approximate representation of PML is based on the effective medium theory and we call it an effective medium PML…

Single-shot diffraction imaging of isolated nanosized particles has seen remarkable success in recent years, yielding in-situ measurements with ultra-high spatial and temporal resolution. The progress of high-repetition-rate sources for…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2022-08-26 Julian Zimmermann , Fabien Beguet , Daniel Guthruf , Bruno Langbehn , Daniela Rupp

Here we propose a route to the high-Q perfect absorption of light by introducing the concept of a Fano anti-laser. Based on the drastic spectral variation of the optical phase in a Fano-resonant system, a spectral singularity for…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-30 Sunkyu Yu , Xianji Piao , Jiho Hong , Namkyoo Park

A recent paper, Phys. Rev. Research 8, 013261 (2026), claims that the polaromechanical normal-mode splitting (NMS) measured in Nat. Commun. 16, 5652 (2025) is not true based on their two results: $i$) there is no true splitting in the…

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In an earlier paper we introduced the concept of the perfect lens which focuses both near and far electromagnetic fields, hence attaining perfect resolution. Here we consider refinements of the original prescription designed to overcome the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , J. B. Pendry , M. C. K Wiltshire , W. J. Stewart

Spatial frequency filtering is a fundamental enabler of information processing methods in biological and technical imaging. Most filtering methods, however, require either bulky and expensive optical equipment or some degree of…

To evaluate the radiation tolerance of nanocrystalline (NC) materials, the damage effects of Fe and W as typical body-centered cubic (BCC) metals under uniform irradiation are studied by a sequential multi-scale modelling framework. An…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-24 Liuming Wei , Zhe Zhao , Yonggang Li , Qirong Zheng , Chuanguo Zhang , Jingyu Li , Gaofeng Zhao , Bo Da , Zhi Zeng

Many key functionalities of optical frequency combs such as self-referencing and broad spectral access rely on coherent supercontinuum generation (SCG). While nanophotonic waveguides have emerged as a compact and power-efficient platform…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-19 Chia-Yi Lee , Yanwu Liu , Yinke Cheng , Cheng-Hao Lao , Qihuang Gong , Qi-Fan Yang

A popular absorbing structure, often referred to as Perfect Metamaterial Absorber, comprising metallic periodic pattern over a thin low-loss grounded substrate is studied by resorting to an efficient transmission line model. This approach…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Filippo Costa , Simone Genovesi , Agostino Monorchio , Giuliano Manara