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The growing complexity of integrated photonics necessitates compact, low-power devices that transcend traditional, material-centric design approaches. In this study, we harness non-Hermitian physics to uncover novel properties of coupled…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-30 P. Chang , S. Ramezanpour , A. Helmy

We experimentally demonstrate plasmonic nano-circuits operating as sub-diffraction directional couplers optically excited with high efficiency from free-space using optical Yagi-Uda style antennas at \lambda = 1550 nm. The optical Yagi-Uda…

Subwavelength plasmonic waveguides show the unique ability of strongly localizing (down to the nanoscale) and guiding light. These structures are intrinsically two-way optical communication channels, providing two opposite light propagation…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-13 Yannick Lefier , Thierry Grosjean

We demonstrate a way to coherently control light at the nanoscale and achieve coherent perfect absorption (CPA) by using epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) plasmonic waveguides. The presented waveguides support an effective ENZ response at their…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-29 Ying Li , Christos Argyropoulos

Electronic flying qubits offer an interesting alternative to photonic qubits: electrons propagate slower, hence easier to control in real time, and Coulomb interaction enables direct entanglement between different qubits. Although their…

Multiarm interferometers can enhance measurement precision and provide multiparameter capability to the measurement. Their realisation requires multiport beam splitters, which has been a long-standing challenge in free-space and integrated…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-15 Jovana Petrovic , Aleksandra Maluckov , Nikola Stojanovic

We propose a practical and efficient solution for the coupling of light from integrated single-mode waveguides to supercollimating planar photonic crystals on conventional silicon-on-insulator platforms. The device consists of a rib…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Vynck , E. Centeno , M. Le Vassor d'Yerville , D. Cassagne

Surface plasmon polaritons enable light concentration within subwavelength regions, opening thereby new avenues for miniaturizing the device and strengthening light-matter interactions. Here we realize effective electro-optic modulation in…

Integrated optics has brought unprecedented levels of stability and performance to quantum photonic circuits. However, integrated devices are not merely micron-scale equivalents of their bulk-optics counterparts. By exploiting the…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-24 Ryan P. Marchildon , Amr S. Helmy

Plasmonic devices and circuits, bridging the gap between integrated photonic and microelectronic technology, are promising candidates to realize on-chip ultrawide-band and ultrahigh-speed information processing. Unfortunately, the wideband…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-26 Cuicui Lu , Xiaoyong Hu , Hong Yang , Qihuang Gong

Nonlinear interferometers with correlated photons hold a promise to advance optical characterization and metrology techniques by improving their performance and affordability. Nonlinear interferometers offer the sub-shot noise phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Anna V. Paterova , Leonid A. Krivitsky

Growing application space in optical communications, computing, and sensing continues to drive the need for high-performance integrated photonic components. Designing these on-chip systems with complex and application-specific functionality…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ali Najjar Amiri , Aycan Deniz Vit , Kazim Gorgulu , Emir Salih Magden

We investigate the subwavelength imaging capacity of a two-dimensional fanned-out plasmonic waveguide array, formed by air channels surrounded by gold metal layers for operation at near-infrared wavelengths, via finite element simulations.…

Optics · Physics 2015-01-15 Nina Podoliak , Peter Horak , Jord C. Prangsma , Pepijn W. H. Pinkse

Plasmonic nanopatch antennas that incorporate dielectric gaps hundreds of picometers to several nanometers thick have drawn increasing attention over the past decade because they confine electromagnetic fields to grossly sub-diffraction…

We challenge the current thinking and approach to the design of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for applications in communications, quantum information and sensing. The standard PICs are based on directional couplers, that provide a…

The research area of plasmonics promises devices with ultrasmall footprint operating at ultrafast speeds and with lower energy consumption compared to conventional electronics. These devices will operate with light and bridge the gap…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-22 Shobhit K. Patel , Christos Argyropoulos

Nonlinear optics, especially frequency mixing, underpins modern optical technology and scientific exploration in quantum optics, materials and life sciences, and optical communications. Since nonlinear effects are weak, efficient frequency…

Key requirements for quantum plasmonic nanocircuits are reliable single-photon sources, high coupling efficiency to the plasmonic structures and low propagation losses. Self-assembled epitaxially grown GaAs quantum dots are close to ideal…

Wafer-level testing is an important step for process and quality control of electronic chips in integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing which occurs before packaging. The process of wafer probing in its conventional contacting schemes,…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-29 Maryam Sadat Amiri Naeini , Pierre Berini

A metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguide for electromagnetic energy transport utilizing dispersion engineering to dramatically increase lateral energy confinement via a two-dimensional pattern of Au dots on an optically thin Si membrane is…