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Light properties in the mid-infrared can be controlled at a deep subwavelength scale using hyperbolic phonons-polaritons (HPPs) of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). While propagating as waveguided modes HPPs can concentrate the electric field…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a natural hyperbolic material which can also accommodate highly dispersive surface phonon-polariton modes. In this paper, we examine theoretically the mid-infrared optical properties of graphene-hBN…

Polaritons can provide strong optical field enhancement allowing to boost light-matter interaction. Here, we experimentally observe enhancement of mid-infrared second-harmonic generation (SHG) using grating-coupled surface phonon polaritons…

Metasurfaces with strongly anisotropic optical properties can support deep subwavelength-scale confined electromagnetic waves (polaritons) that promise opportunities for controlling light in photonic and optoelectronic applications. We…

We investigate the optical properties of sub-wavelength layered metal/dielectric structures, also known as hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs), using exact analytical Kronig Penney (KP) model. We show that hyperbolic isofrequency surfaces exist…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-09 Tengfei Li , Jacob B. Khurgin

The spectral dispersion of light is critical in applications ranging from spectroscopy to sensing and optical communication technologies. We demonstrate that ultra-high spectral dispersion can be achieved with a finite-size surface plasmon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Mikhailov , J. Elliott , G. Wurtz , P. Bayvel , A. V. Zayats

Phonon-polaritons (PP) are phonon-photon coupled modes. Using near-forward Raman scattering, the PP of the cubic Zn(1-x)MgxTe (x<0.09) semiconductor alloy could be measured. While the PP-coupling hardly develops in pure ZnTe, minor…

Conventional optical components are limited to size-scales much larger than the wavelength of light, as changes in the amplitude, phase and polarization of the electromagnetic fields are accrued gradually along an optical path. However,…

We propose to use optical antennas made out of natural hyperbolic material hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), and we demonstrate that this medium is a promising alternative to plasmonic and all-dielectric materials for realizing efficient…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-23 Viktoriia E. Babicheva

Pb(Mg$_{1/3}$Nb$_{2/3}$)O$_{3}$ is one of the simplest representatives of the class of lead relaxors and often serves as a model system for more complicated compounds. In this paper we analyse both polarized and depolarized Raman scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Oleksiy Svitelskiy , Jean Toulouse , Z. -G. Ye

We report an analysis on a phonon spectral function of a solid-state plasma formed in a doped semiconductor. Real and imaginary parts of phonon propagators are evaluated including carrier screening effects within a random phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Kyung-Soo Yi , Hye-Jung Kim

In the fast growing two-dimensional (2D) materials family, anisotropic 2D materials, with their intrinsic in-plane anisotropy, exhibit a great potential in optoelectronics. One such typical material is black phosphorus (BP), with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Chong Wang , Guowei Zhang , Shenyang Huang , Yuangang Xie , Hugen Yan

We study super-Planckian near-field heat exchanges for multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials using exact S-matrix calculations. We investigate heat exchanges between two multilayer hyperbolic metamaterial structures. We show that the super-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Svend-Age Biehs , Maria Tschikin , Riccardo Messina , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Strongly anisotropic media where the principal components of the dielectric tensor have opposite signs are called hyperbolic. Such materials length exhibit unique nanophotonic properties enabled by the highly directional propagation of…

We demonstrate that the dispersion of surface plasmon polaritons in a periodically perforated gold film can be efficiently manipulated by femtosecond laser pulses with the wavelengths far from the intrinsic resonances of gold. Using a time-…

Semiclassical quantization rules and numerical calculations are applied to study polariton modes of materials whose permittivity tensor has principal values of opposite sign (so-called hyperbolic materials). The spectra of volume- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Zhiyuan Sun , A. Gutierrez-Rubio , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

Hyperbolic phonon polariton is important in precisely controlling photons at the nanoscale. It was common practice to calculate the dielectric function of the phonon polariton system with the Drude-Lorenz model. We considered the impact of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-07 Yue Fang , Huanjun Chen , Zhibing Li , Weiliang Wang

Polaron spectral functions are computed for highly doped graphene-on-substrate and other atomically thin graphitic systems using the diagrammatic Monte Carlo technique. The specific aim is to investigate the effects of interaction on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-30 J. P. Hague

The experimental Raman spectra of graphene exhibit a few intense two-phonon bands, which are enhanced through double-resonant scattering processes. Though there are many theoretical papers on this topic, none of them predicts the spectra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 Valentin N. Popov , Philippe Lambin

Polaritons in 2D and van der Waals (vdW) materials have been investigated in several recent works as an innovative platform for light-matter interaction, rich of new physical phenomena.Hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN), in particular, is an…