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Plasmonic metasurfaces are promising as enablers of nanoscale nonlinear optics and flat nonlinear optical components. Nonlinear optical responses of such metasurfaces are determined by the nonlinear optical properties of individual…

In this paper, a non-Hermitian two-dimensional photonic crystal flat lens is proposed. The negative refraction of the second band of photonic crystal is utilized to realize super-resolution imaging of the point source. Based on the…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-16 Longfei Li , Jianlan Xie , Jianjun Liu

For over a decade, photonic time crystals have promised access to novel and exotic optical phenomena, offering fundamentally new ways to manipulate classical and quantum light. Central to these capabilities is the emergence of momentum…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-16 Mohammadreza Salehi , Matteo Ciabattoni , Francesco Monticone

We examine the optical properties of two different configurations of a cylindrical device made from a hyperbolic metamaterial with optical axis defined by circular and radial director fields. The hyperbolic metamaterial is an uniaxial…

We review both theoretical and experimental advances in the recently emerged physics of modulated photonic lattices. Artificial periodic dielectric media, such as photonic crystals and photonic lattices, provide a powerful tool for the…

According to the holographic principle, the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on its boundary. Holographic principle establishes equivalence, or duality, between theoretical description of volume physics, which…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Igor I. Smolyaninov

We revisit the method of cumulants for analysing dynamic light scattering data in particle sizing applications. Here the data, in the form of the time correlation function of scattered light, is written as a series involving the first few…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-27 Alastair G. Mailer , Paul S. Clegg , Peter N. Pusey

Metamaterials are nano-engineered media with designed properties beyond those available in nature with applications in all aspects of materials science. In particular, metamaterials have shown promise for next generation of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Prashant Shekhar , Jonathan Atkinson , Zubin Jacob

Metasurface, a kind of two-dimensional structured medium, represents a novel platform to manipulate the propagation of light at subwavelength scale. In linear optical regime, many interesting topics such as planar metalens, metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-30 Yutao Tang , Junhong Deng , King Fai Li , Mingke Jin , Jack Ng , Guixin Li

Rapidly growing demands for fast information processing have launched a race for creating compact and highly efficient optical devices that can reliably transmit signals without losses. Recently discovered topological phases of light…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-04 Daria Smirnova , Daniel Leykam , Yidong Chong , Yuri Kivshar

We address the interactions between optical solitons in the system with longitudinally varying nonlocality degree and nonlinearity strength. We consider a physical model describing light propagation in nematic liquid crystals featuring a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Fangwei Ye , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Lluis Torner

Natural hyperbolic materials have attracted significant interest in the field of photonics due to their unique optical properties. Based on the initial successful explorations on layered crystalline materials, hyperbolic dispersion was…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Qi-Dong Hao , Hao Wang , Hong-Xing Song , Xiang-Rong Chen , Hua Y. Geng

We show that diffraction of electromagnetic radiation (in particular of a visible light) can disappear in propagation through materials with periodically in space modulated refraction index, i.e. photonic crystals. In this way the light…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Staliunas , R. Herrero

Topological photonics aims to utilize topological photonic bands and corresponding edge modes to implement robust light manipulation, which can be readily achieved in the linear regime of light-matter interaction. Importantly, unlike solid…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Zhihao Lan , Jian Wei You , Nicolae C. Panoiu

Time-dependent nonlinear media, such as rapidly generated plasmas produced via laser ionization of gases, can increase the energy of individual laser photons and generate tunable high-order harmonic pulses. This phenomenon, known as photon…

Control of the electromagnetic waves in nano-scale structured materials is central to the development of next generation photonic circuits and devices. In this context, hyperbolic metamaterials, where elliptical isofrequency surfaces are…

Parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry, originally conceived for non-Hermitian open quantum systems, has opened an excitingly new avenue for the coherent control of light. By tailoring optical gain and loss in integrated photonic structures,…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-11 Junpeng Hou , Zhitong Li , Qing Gu , Chuanwei Zhang

We examine a spatial evolution of lightwaves in a nonlinear photonic crystal with a quadratic nonlinearity when simultaneously a second harmonic and a sum-frequency generation are quasi-phase-matched. We find the conditions of a transition…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kirill N. Alekseev , Aleksey V. Ponomarev

We present waveguides with photonic crystal cores, supporting energy propagation in subwavelength regions with a mode structure similar to that in telecom fibers. We design meta-materials for near-, mid-, and far-IR frequencies, and…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Govyadinov , Viktor A. Podolskiy

Supersolidity - simultaneous superfluid flow and crystalline order - has been realized in quantum atomic systems but remains unexplored in purely photonic platforms operating at weak light-matter coupling. We predict a supersolid phase of…

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