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A simple and flexible technique for achieving quasi-phase-matching in integrated photonic waveguides without periodic poling is proposed and experimentally demonstrated, referred to as mode-shape-modulation (MSM). It employs a periodic…

We use our vector Maxwell's nonlinear eigenmode solver to study the stationary solutions in 2D cross-section waveguides with Kerr nonlinear cores. This solver is based on the fixed power algorithm within the finite element method. First,…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-12 Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy , Gilles Renversez

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are surface-bound waves at metal-dielectric interfaces that exhibit strong out-of-plane field confinement, a key feature for applications is nano-scale sensing and imaging. However, this advantage is offset…

We present a novel approach to enhance THz nonlinearity by the resonant excitation of two-dimensional plasmons in grating-gate plasmonic crystals. Using a high-electric-field THz pump-THz probe technique, we investigate the nonlinear…

We study and actively control the coherent properties of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) optically exited on a nano-hole array. Amplitude and phase of the optical excitation are externally controlled via a digital spatial light modulator…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-05 B. Gjonaj , J. Aulbach , P. M. Johnson , A. P. Mosk , L. Kuipers , A. Lagendijk

Exciton polaritons based on atomically thin semiconductors are essential building blocks of quantum optoelectronic devices. Their properties are governed by an ultrafast and oscillatory energy transfer between their excitonic and photonic…

Plasmons in two-dimensional (2D) materials beyond graphene have recently gained much attention. However, the experimental investigation is limited due to the lack of suitable materials. Here, we experimentally demonstrate localized plasmons…

A hyperbolic plasmonic surface supports highly directional propagating polaritons with extremely large density of states. Such plasmon polaritons have been realized in artificially structured metasurfaces. However, the upper bound of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Chong Wang , Shenyang Huang , Qiaoxia Xing , Yuangang Xie , Chaoyu Song , Fanjie Wang , Hugen Yan

The nonlinear amplitude modulation of known electrostatic plasma modes is examined in a generic manner, by applying a collisionless fluid model. Both cold (zero-temperature) and warm fluid descriptions are discussed and the results are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Kourakis , Padma Kant Shukla

Plasmons in atomically thin materials offer a compelling route to trigger nonlinear light-matter interactions through extreme optical confinement in the two-dimensional (2D) limit. However, optical nonlocality in plasmons is typically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Line Jelver , Joel D. Cox

Rapid and programmable shaping of light fields is central to modern microscopy, display technologies, optical communications and sensing, quantum engineering, and quantum information processing. Current wavefront shaping technologies face a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Xin Wei , Zeyang Li , Abhishek V. Karve , Adam L. Shaw , David I. Schuster , Jonathan Simon

The observation of the electrically tunable and highly confined plasmons in graphene has stimulated the exploration of interesting properties of plasmons in other two dimensional materials. Recently, hyperbolic plasmon resonance modes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Chong Wang , Yangye Sun , Shenyang Huang , Qiaoxia Xing , Guowei Zhang , Chaoyu Song , Fanjie Wang , Yuangang Xie , Yuchen Lei , Zhengzong Sun , Hugen Yan

Optical parametric amplification is a second-order nonlinear process whereby an optical signal is amplified by a pump via the generation of an idler field. It is the key ingredient of tunable sources of radiation that play an important role…

We develop a new concept for active plasmonics exploiting nanoscale structural transformations which is supported by rigorous numerical analysis. We show that surface plasmon-polariton signals in a metal-on-dielectric waveguide containing a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Krasavin , N. I. Zheludev

By using the real-space method, switching of a single plasmon interacting with a hybrid nanosystem composed of a semiconductor quantum dot (SQD) and a metallic nanoparticle (MNP) coupled to one-dimensional surface plasmonic waveguide is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Myong-Chol Ko , Nam-Chol Kim , Zhong-Hua Hao , Li Zhou , Jian-Bo Li , Qu-Quan Wang

We predict theoretically that stable subwavelength plasmonic lattice solitons (PLSs) are formed in arrays of metallic nanowires embedded in a nonlinear medium. The tight confinement of the guiding modes of the metallic nanowires, combined…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fangwei Ye , Dumitru Mihalache , Bambi Hu , Nicolae C Panoiu

Full ranges of both hybrid plasmon-mode dispersions and their damping are studied systematically by our recently developed mean-field theory in open systems involving a conducting substrate and a two-dimensional (2D) material with a buckled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Andrii Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Liubov Zhemchuzhna

In this paper, a numerical solution for a hybrid plasmonic modulator is presented with a six-layer structure consisting of an air superstrate, a gold layer, a barium titanate layer, a n type silicon layer, a gold layer and an Al2O3…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Purya Es'haghi , Ali Barkhordari

Solid state quantum emitters are a mainstay of quantum nanophotonics as integrated single photon sources (SPS) and optical nanoprobes. Integrating such emitters with active nanophotonic elements is desirable in order to attain efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 K. Schädler , C. Ciancico , S. Pazzagli , P. Lombardi , A. Bachtold , C. Toninelli , A. Reserbat-Plantey , F. Koppens

By making use of circularly polarized light and electrostatic gating, monolayer molybdenum disulfide (ML-MoS$_2$) can form a platform supporting multiple types of charge carriers. They can be discriminated by their spin, valley index or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-17 Y. M. Xiao , W. Xu , F. M. Peeters , B. Van Duppen