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Broadband-tunable sources of circularly-polarized light are crucial in fields such as laser science, biomedicine and spectroscopy. Conventional sources rely on nonlinear wavelength conversion and polarization control using standard optical…

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We investigate, both theoretically and experimentally, the phenomenon of polarization rotation of a weak, linearly-polarized optical (probe) field in an atomic system with multiple three-level electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shujing Li , Bo Wang , Xudong Yang , Yanxu Han , Hai Wang , Min Xiao , K. C. Peng

Characterizing and manipulating the circular polarization of light is central to numerous emerging technologies, including spintronics and quantum computing. Separately, monolayer tungsten disulfide (WS2) is a versatile material that has…

Magneto-optical effect refers to a rotation of polarization plane, which has been widely studied in traditional ferromagnetic metal and insulator films and scarcely in two-dimensional layered materials. Here we uncover a new nonreciprocal…

Phase modulation plays a crucial role in various terahertz applications, including biomedical imaging, high-rate communication, and radar detection. Existing terahertz phase shifters typically rely on tuning the resonant effect of…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-19 Xudong Liu , Daosong Yu , Chuanfu Sun , Zhijie Mei , Hao Chen , Jianbin Xu , Yiwen Sun

Electromagnetic linear-to-circular polarization converters with wide- and multi-band capabilities can simplify antenna systems where circular polarization is required. Multi-band solutions are attractive in satellite communication systems,…

In photonics, twisted bi-layer systems have demonstrated unprecedented control over light-matter interactions, primarily through the modulation of photonic band structures and the formation of Moir\'e patterns. Meanwhile, magnetic photonic…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 You-Ming Liu , Shi-Kai Lin , Pei-Shi Li , Yi-Ran Hao , Biao Yang

We show that polarization states of electromagnetic waves can be manipulated easily using a single thin uniaxial crystal plate. By performing a rotational transformation of the coordinates and controlling the thickness of the plate, we can…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-03 Xiaohu Wu , Ceji Fu

We design and demonstrate a compact, low-power, low-dispersion and broadband optical modulator based on electro-optic (EO) polymer refilled silicon slot photonic crystal waveguide (PCW). The EO polymer is engineered for large EO activity…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Xingyu Zhang , Amir Hosseini , Jingdong Luo , Alex K. -Y. Jen , Ray T. Chen

A novel thin-film LiNbO3 (TFLN) electro-optic modulator is proposed and demonstrated. LiNbO3-silica hybrid waveguide is adopted to maintain low optical loss for an electrode spacing as narrow as 3 {\mu}m, resulting in a record low…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Xuecheng Liu , Bing Xiong , Changzheng Sun , Jian Wang , Zhibiao Hao , Lai Wang , Yanjun Han , Hongtao Li , Jiadong Yu , Yi Luo

A single layer broadband millimetre wave (mm-wave) array with circular polarisation is proposed for the fifth generation (5G) mm-wave communication applications. The antenna element is designed to integrate the matching circuit into a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-24 Qian Xu , Yi Huang , Tian-Hong Loh , Manoj Stanley , Lei Xing , Min Wang , Hui Gan

We report the experimental realization of a LiNbO3 metasurface for electro-optic modulation of light polarization in the telecommunication band. High-Q quasi-bound states in the continuum are emploied to enhance the modulation of amplitude…

Circulators based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons are designed and analyzed. In the letter, we use blade structure to realize the propagation of SSPPs wave and a matching transition is used to feed energy from coplanar waveguide to the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-24 Tianshuo Qiu , Jiafu Wang , Yongfeng Li , Shaobo Qu

We present high precision measurements of polarization rotations in the frequency range from 0.1 to 2.5 THz using a polarization modulation technique. A motorized stage rotates a polarizer at ~80 Hz, and the resulting modulation of the…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-26 C. M. Morris , R. Valdés Aguilar , A. V. Stier , N. P. Armitage

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…

Circular dichroism covering the telecommunication band is experimentally demonstrated in a semiconductor-based three-dimensional chiral photonic crystal (PhC). We design a rotationally-stacked woodpile PhC structure where neighboring layers…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Takahashi , T. Tajiri , Y. Ota , J. Tatebayashi , S. Iwamoto , Y. Arakawa

Thermal management is ubiquitous in the modern world and indispensable for a sustainable future. Radiative heat management provides unique advantages because the heat transfer can be controlled by the surface. However, different surface…

Using the phenomena of linear and circular birefringence we propose a device that can alter general elliptical polarization of a beam by a predetermined amount, thereby allowing conversion between linearly-polarized light and circularly…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. A. Rangelov

Metasurfaces are nano-structured devices composed of arrays of subwavelength scatterers (or meta-atoms) that manipulate the wavefront, polarization, or intensity of light. Like other diffractive optical devices, metasurfaces suffer from…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-22 Ehsan Arbabi , Amir Arbabi , Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Yu Horie , Andrei Faraon

The method proposed in [I.R. Khairulin et al., JETP Letters 117(9), 652 (2023)] for converting the linearly polarized radiation of high-order harmonics of an optical field into the circularly polarized in an optically modulated active…