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Graphene is promising for nanoscale, efficient, ultra-fast photo- and opto-electronic devices because of its remarkable electrical and optical properties, such as fast electron relaxation and heat dissipation. Here, we realize…

We introduce a novel all-optical platform in multimode and multicore fibres. By using a low-power probe beam and a high-power counter-propagating control beam, we achieve advanced and dynamic control over light propagation within the…

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The 2-{\mu}m waveband, emerging as a highly promising candidate for optical communication, offers an extended wavelength window for high-speed optical transmission. Despite its potential, the development of integrated electro-optic (E/O)…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-06 Chao Luan , Deming Kong , Yunhong Ding , Hao Hu

A wavelength-tunable Optical Fiber Tweezer (OFT) based on a Graded Index Multimode Fiber (GIMF) with a flat endface is proposed. It is shown that the design can support a trapping position which is far from the tip of the GIMF compared with…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-11 Esmaeil Mobini , Arash Mafi

Polymer based electro-optic modulators have shown great potentials in high frequency analog optical links. Existing commercial LiNibO3 Mach-Zehnder modulators have intrinsic drawbacks in linearity to provide high fidelity communication. In…

Multimode fibers (MMFs) can transmit multiple guided modes simultaneously, making them a promising platform for high-resolution biomedical imaging, endoscopy and high-bandwidth optical communication. However, their complex modal behavior,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-28 Dvir Marsh , Lior Fridman , Stav Lotan , Amit Kam , Shie Mannor , Guy Bartal

Effective control of terahertz radiation requires the development of efficient and fast modulators with a large modulation depth. This challenge is often tackled by using metamaterials, artificial sub-wavelength optical structures…

Exploring the use of single-mode fibers (SMFs) in high precision Doppler spectrometers has become increasingly attractive since the advent of diffraction-limited adaptive optics systems on large-aperture telescopes. Spectrometers fed with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Samuel Halverson , Arpita Roy , Suvrath Mahadevan , Christian Schwab

Active metasurfaces have recently emerged as compact, lightweight, and efficient platforms for dynamic control of electromagnetic fields and optical responses. However, the complexities associated with their post-fabrication tunability…

On-chip integration of highly anisotropic two-dimensional (2D) materials offers new opportunities for realizing high performance polarization selective devices. Obtaining optimized designs for such devices requires extensively sweeping…

We experimentally demonstrate a very large dynamic optical reflection modulation from a simple unpatterned layered stack of phase-change materials ultrathin films. Specifically, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that properly…

We propose and discuss terahertz electro-absorption modulators based on graphene plasmonic structures. The active device consists of a self-gated pair of graphene layers, which are patterned to structures supporting THz plasmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez , Rusen Yan , Mingda Zhu , Debdeep Jena , Lei Liu , Huili Grace Xing

In this article, a few-layered graphene-dielectric multilayer (metamaterial) electro-optic modulator has been proposed in the mid and far infrared range that works on electro-absorption mechanism. Graphene, both mono layer and few layer, is…

Graphene is a 2D material with appealing electronic and optoelectronic properties. It is a zero-bandgap material with valence and conduction bands meeting in a single point (Dirac point) in the momentum space. Its conductivity can be…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 V. Sorianello , G. Contestabile , M. Romagnoli

We proposed plasmonic effect based narrow band tunable terahertz switches consisting of multilayered graphene metamaterial. Though several terahertz optical switches based on metamaterials were previously reported, these switches had…

Waveguide-based interferometric circuits are widely employed in optical communications, sensing and computing applications. In particular, glass-based devices are appealing due to the transparency and bio-compatibility of this substrate, or…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-28 Roberto Memeo , Andrea Crespi , Roberto Osellame

We propose a lensed-fiber based coupling strategy for low-loss interconnection between single-mode fibers and anti-resonant fibers. By optimizing structural and geometric parameters, the design simultaneously achieves high coupling…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Yi Su , Xuchen Hua , Bingyan Xue , Yucheng Yao , Zhiyong Zhao , Ming Tang

Graphene photonics has emerged as a promising platform for providing desirable optical functionality. However, graphene's monolayer-scale thickness fundamentally restricts the available light matter interaction, posing a critical design…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-11 PoHan Chang , Charles Lin , Amr S. Helmy

We present a plasmonic modulator based on hybrid orthogonal silver junctions using vanadium dioxide as the modulating material on the silicon on insulator. The modulator has an ultra-compact footprint of 1.8{\mu}m x 1{\mu}m with a 100nm x…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-04 Gregory Tanyi , Miao Sun , Ranjith Unnithan