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Scalability remains a major challenge in building practical fault-tolerant quantum computers. Currently, the largest number of qubits achieved across leading quantum platforms ranges from hundreds to thousands. In atom arrays, scalability…

Over the past years, photonic metasurfaces have demonstrated their remarkable and diverse capabilities for achieving advanced control over light propagation by confining electromagnetic radiation within the deeply subwavelength thickness of…

Structured quantum light is crucial for high-dimensional quantum information processing, yet its direct generation from quantum emitters remains challenging due to their intrinsic locality and omnidirectional radiation. Metasurfaces have…

Atoms in a sub-wavelength lattices have remarkable optical properties that have become of high scientific and technological significance. Here, we show how the coupling of light to more than a single atomic array can expand these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 Simon Panyella Pedersen , Lida Zhang , Thomas Pohl

Metasurfaces are an emerging platform for manipulating light on a two-dimensional plane. Existing metasurfaces comprise arrays of optical resonators such as plasmonic antennas or high-index nanorods. In this letter, we describe a new…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-30 Ming Zhou , Jingfeng Liu , Mikhail Kats , Zongfu Yu

Metasurfaces play a key role in functionalizing light at the nanoscale. Existing dielectric metasurfaces, however, are often limited to geometric primitives and their usage in emergent hybrid metasurfaces is hampered as confinement of light…

Structured light has proven useful for numerous photonic applications. However, the current use of structured light in optical fiber science and technology is severely limited by mode mixing or by the lack of optical elements that can be…

Unprecedented atomic-scale measurement resolution has recently been demonstrated in single-shot optical localization metrology based on deep-learning analyses of diffraction patterns of topologically structured light scattered from objects.…

Optical cavities are a foundational technology for controlling light-matter interactions. While interfacing a single cavity to either an atom or ensemble has become a standard tool, the advent of single atom control in large atomic arrays…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Anna Soper , Danial Shadmany , Adam L. Shaw , Lukas Palm , David I. Schuster , Jonathan Simon

Metasurfaces are optically thin metamaterials that promise complete control of the wavefront of light but are primarily used to control only the phase of light. Here, we present an approach, simple in concept and in practice, that uses…

Metasurfaces are planar structures that can manipulate the amplitude, phase and polarization (APP) of light at subwavelength scale. Although various functionalities have been proposed based on metasurface, a most general optical control,…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-31 Yanjun Bao , Ying Yu , Shang Sun , Yang Chen , Qing-Hua Xu , Cheng-Wei Qiu

Two microring resonators, one with gain and one with loss, coupled to each other and to a bus waveguide, create an effective non-Hermitian potential for light propagating in the waveguide. Due to geometry, coupling for each microring…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-10 Vladimir V. Konotop , Barry C. Sanders , Dmitry A. Zezyulin

Surface plasmons dominate the optical response of metal surfaces, and their nature is controlled by surface geometry. Here we study metasurfaces containing singularities in the form of sharp edges and characterized by three quantum numbers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Fan Yang , Paloma A. Huidobro , John B. Pendry

We demonstrate single-atom trapping in two-dimensional arrays of microtraps with arbitrary geometries. We generate the arrays using a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM), with which we imprint an appropriate phase pattern on an optical dipole…

Zak phase and topological protected edge state are usually studied in one-dimensional(1D) photonic systems with spatial inversion symmetry(SIS). Interestingly in this work, we find specific classes of 1D structure without SIS can be mapped…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Qiucui Li , Yu Zhang , Xunya Jiang

High-quality flat optical elements require efficient light deflection to large angles and over a wide wavelength spectrum. Although phase gradient metasurfaces achieve this by continuously adding phase shifts in the range of 0 to 2{\pi} to…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-26 Claudio U. Hail , Dimos Poulikakos , Hadi Eghlidi

Metasurfaces are ultrathin structures which are constituted by an array of subwavelength scatterers with designable scattering responses. They have opened up unprecedented exciting opportunities for extraordinary wave engineering processes.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

Freeform optics aims to expand the toolkit of optical elements by allowing for more complex phase geometries beyond rotational symmetry. Complex, asymmetric curvatures are employed to enhance the performance of optical components while…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-05 Alan Zhan , Shane Colburn , Christopher M. Dodson , Arka Majumdar

Topological singularities are ubiquitous in many areas of physics. Polarization singularities are locations at which an aspect of the polarization ellipse of light becomes undetermined or degenerate. At C points the orientation of the…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-24 L. De Angelis , F. Alpeggiani , L. Kuipers

Liquid crystals (LCs) form an extremely rich range of self-assembled topological structures with artificially or naturally created topological defects. Some of the main applications of LCs are various optical and photonic devices, where…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-09 Miha Papič , Urban Mur , Miha Ravnik , Igor Muševič , Matjaž Humar