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Due to that the polarization states in optical fibers change randomly during transmission, polarization-independent (PID) devices are demanded to receive lights with arbitrary polarization states. Compared with their orthogonal polarization…
The capability to detect the polarization state of light is crucial in many day-life applications and scientific disciplines. Novel anisotropic two-dimensional materials such as TiS3 combine polarization sensitivity, given by the in-plane…
We describe a macroscopic beam splitter for polar neutral molecules. A complex electrode structure is required for the beam splitter which would be very difficult to produce with traditional manufacturing methods. Instead, we make use of a…
Recent advances in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have enabled a new generation of "programmable many-mode interferometers" (PMMIs) realized by cascaded Mach Zehnder Interferometers (MZIs) capable of universal linear-optical…
We present a beam splitter in a suspended, ballistic, multiterminal, bilayer graphene device. By using local bottomgates, a p-n interface tilted with respect to the current direction can be formed. We show that the p-n interface acts as a…
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Active photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in the visible spectrum are essential for on-chip applications, requiring low-loss waveguides with broad transparency and efficient, low-power phase modulation. Here, we demonstrate a compact,…
The Hefei Advanced Light Facility (HALF) will be a VUV and soft X-ray diffraction-limited storage ring (DLSR), and its high density of electron bunches makes the intra-beam scattering (IBS) effect very serious. In this paper, an IBS module…
In this paper, we introduce a new approach to fabricate under the Silicon on Insulator (SOI) platform a 1x2 power splitter and scale it to 1xN system device from the proposed model. The current strategy of design is based on the well-known…
We propose a new class of photonic devices based on periodic stress fields in silicon that enable second-order nonlinearity as well as quasi-phase matching. Periodically-poled silicon (PePSi) adds the periodic poling capability to silicon…
Squeezing light into subwavelength dimensions is vital for on-chip integration of photonic technologies. One approach to overcome the diffraction limit is coupling light to material excitations, leading to polariton states. Here, we…
Photonic technologies offer promising solutions to the power consumption, bandwidth constraints and latency limits of electronic hardware used in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. Recently, many studies have proposed…
In this Letter, a linear scheme to generate polarization entanglement at 1.5 um based on commercial polarization maintained dispersion shifted fiber (PM-DSF) is proposed. The birefringent walk-off effect of the pulsed pump light in the…
An ultra-broadband transverse magnetic (TM) pass hyperuniform disordered photonic crystal (HUDPC) polarizer is proposed and demonstrated on a silicon-on-insulator platform. Propagation of the transverse electric mode is blocked by three…
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