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We show the abundance of Exceptional Points in the generic asymmetric configuration of two coupled diode lasers, under nonzero optical detuning and differential pumping. We pinpoint the location of these points with respect to the stability…

Selective control of light is essential for optical science and technology with numerous applications. Nanophotonic waveguides and integrated couplers have been developed to achieve selective coupling and spatial control of an optical beam…

Exceptional points (EPs) are degeneracies in open wave systems with coalescence of at least two energy levels and their corresponding eigenstates. In higher dimensions, more complex EP physics not found in two-state systems is observed. We…

Exceptional points, resulting from non-Hermitian degeneracies, have the potential to enhance the capabilities of quantum sensing. Thus, finding exceptional points in different quantum systems is vital for developing such future sensing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Po-Chen Kuo , Neill Lambert , Adam Miranowicz , Hong-Bin Chen , Guang-Yin Chen , Yueh-Nan Chen , Franco Nori

Exceptional points show great prospects for applications such as imaging, sensing and designing lasers. Recently, systems with amplifying active medium exhibiting pump-induced exceptional points have attracted much attention due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 I. S. Pashkevich , I. V. Doronin , A. A. Zyablovsky , E. S. Andrianov

Random lasers are highly configurable light sources that are promising for imaging and photonic integration. In this study, random lasing action was generated by optically pumping MBBA liquid crystals infiltrated with gold nanoparticles and…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-02 Yiyang Zhi , Andrew Lininger , Giuseppe Strangi

Exceptional points (EPs), branch singularities parameter space of non-Hermitian eigenvalue manifolds, display unique topological phenomena linked to eigenvalue and eigenvector switching: the parameter space states are highly sensitive to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 K. Ho , S. Perna , S. Wittrock , S. Tsunegi , H. Kubota , S. Yuasa , P. Bortolotti , M. d'Aquino , C. Serpico , V. Cros , R. Lebrun

Frequency locking between coupled laser systems provides a powerful mechanism for stabilizing and controlling coherent emission, yet its implementation and applicability down to the nanoscale remains unknown and unexplored. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ann-Kathrin Kollak , Lukas R. Jäger , Hark Hoe Tan , Carsten Ronning

We investigate the dynamics of the spaser-based nanolaser in the strong incoherent pumping regime in the quantum limit when the photon number is the order of unity. We consider the situation where the newly irradiated photon finds itself in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 E. S. Andrianov , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , A. A. Pukhov

Theoretical studies of superradiant lasing on optical clock transitions predict a superb frequency accuracy and precision closely tied to the bare atomic linewidth. Such a superradiant laser is also robust against cavity fluctuations when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Anna Bychek , Christoph Hotter , David Plankensteiner , Helmut Ritsch

We demonstrate an electrically controlled coherent random lasing with silver nano-particles dispersed in a dye-doped nematic liquid crystal (NLC), in which external electric field dependent emission intensity and frequency-splitting are…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-30 Chin Wang , Luogen Deng

Coupled laser arrays exhibit rich and complex physical properties, making them powerful tools for exploring a wide range of phenomena. They enable efficient ground-state optimization of complex landscapes, solve computational problems,…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-10 Simon Mahler

The behavior of a parity-time (PT) symmetric coupled microring system is studied when operating in the vicinity of an exceptional point. Using the abrupt phase transition around this point, stable single-mode lasing is demonstrated in…

Arrays of optically trapped nanoparticles have emerged as a promising platform for the study of complex non-equilibrium phenomena. Analogous to atomic many-body systems, one of the crucial ingredients is the ability to precisely control the…

We investigate the rich physics of photonic molecule lasers using a non-Hermitian dimer model. We show that several interesting features, predicted recently using a rigorous steady state ab-initio laser theory (SALT), can be captured by…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ramy El-Ganainy , Mercedeh Khajavikhan , Li Ge

Higher-order exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems have recently been used as a tool to engineer high-sensitivity devices, attracting tremendous attention from multidisciplinary fields. Here, we present a simple yet effective scheme…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-31 Ambaresh Sahoo , Amarendra K. Sarma

Exceptional points (EPs) in anti-parity-time (APT)-symmetric systems have attracted significant interest. While linear APT-symmetric systems exhibit structural similarities with nonlinear dissipative systems, such as mutually…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Takahiro Uemura , Kenta Takata , Masaya Notomi

Random lasing exploits multiple scattering to provide optical feedback without conventional resonant cavities, enabling simplified architectures that are readily integrated into compact photonic platforms such as wearable sensors and…

Light emitters are bound to strongly interact with light through enhanced absorption and scattering, which imposes limitations on the design and performance of photonic devices such as solar cells, nanoantennas, and (nano) lasers.…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-28 Sergey Lepeshov , Andrey Vyshnevyy , Alex Krasnok

We detail the derivation of nanolaser models that include coherent and incoherent variables and predict the existence of a laser threshold, irrespective of cavity size and emitter number, for both single- and multi-electron systems. The…