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Both dynamic and static approaches are proposed and investigated for controlling the optical phase of a p-polarized light wave that is guided through a surface-patterned metallic structure with subwavelength features. For dynamic control,…

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Photonic platforms have emerged as versatile and powerful classical simulators of quantum dynamics, providing clean, controllable optical analogs of extended structured (i.e., crystalline) electronic systems. While most realizations to date…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-07 Jiho Noh , Julian Schulz , Wladimir Benalcazar , Christina Jörg

Position-momentum entanglement is a versatile high-dimensional resource in quantum optics. From fundamental tests of reality, to application in quantum technologies, spatial entanglement has had an increasing growth in recent years. In this…

Phase-only spatial light modulators (SLMs) are used in optical systems for several purposes. In this article, the main landmarks of SLM-based imaging systems are surveyed. In addition to conventional two-dimensional imaging, these systems…

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A major challenge for plasmonics as an enabling technology for quantum information processing is the realization of active spatio-temporal control of light on the nanoscale. The use of phase-shaped pulses or beams enforces specific…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Svetlana V. Boriskina , Bjoern M. Reinhard

Controlling the propagation and interaction of light in complex media has sparked major interest in the last few years. Unfortunately, spatial light modulation devices suffer from limited speed that precludes real-time applications such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Omer Tzang , Eyal Niv , Sakshi Singh , Simon Labouesse , Greg Myatt , Rafael Piestun

Scaling-up optical quantum technologies requires to combine highly efficient multi-photon sources and integrated waveguide components. Here, we interface these scalable platforms: a quantum dot based multi-photon source and a reconfigurable…

Quantum imaging is emerging as a transformative approach for biomedical applications, applying nonclassical properties of light, such as entanglement, squeezing, and quantum correlations, to overcome fundamental limits of conventional…

Atomic-layer and two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as essential building blocks for next-generation quantum and semiconductor technologies, where atomic-scale control over light-matter interactions is critical. However, their…

The recently demonstrated control over light distribution through turbid media based on real-time three-dimensional optoacoustic feedback has offered promising prospects to interferometrically focus light within scattering objects.…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 X. L. Dean-Ben , H. Estrada , A. Ozbek , D. Razansky

Spectral-temporal shaping of quantum light has important applications in quantum communications and photonic quantum information processing. Electro-optic temporal lenses have recently been recognized as a tool for noise-free, efficient…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-09 Filip Sosnicki , Michal Karpinski

The scientific community has witnessed tremendous expansion of research on layered (i.e. two-dimensional, 2D) materials, with increasing recent focus on applications to photonics. Layered materials are particularly exciting for manipulating…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Akshay Singh , Seong Soon Jo , Yifei Li , Changming Wu , Mo Li , R. Jaramillo

Dynamic control of visible light is crucial for technologies such as holographic displays and adaptive optics. Passive metasurfaces can shape wavefronts at the subwavelength scale and active metasurfaces promise to extend this functionality…

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Emerging holographic display technology offers unique capabilities for next-generation virtual reality systems. Current holographic near-eye displays, however, only support a small \'etendue, which results in a direct tradeoff between…

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Astronomers have come to recognize the benefits of photonics, often in combination with optical systems, in solving longstanding experimental problems in Earth-based astronomy. Here, we explore some of the recent advances made possible by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Barnaby Norris , Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Recently, the spectral manipulation of single photons has been achieved through spatial-temporal modulation of the optical refractive index. Here, we generalize this mechanism to massive particles, i.e. realizing the acceleration or…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Mai Zhang , Xie-hang Yu , Xin-Biao Xu , Guang-Can Guo , Chang-Ling Zou

We have demonstrated a new mechanism for modulating light with light by controlling the efficiency with which light is coupled into a plasmon polariton wave. An optical fluence of 15 mJ/cm^2 in the control channel is sufficient to achieve…

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Quantum optics is the study of the intrinsically quantum properties of light. During the second part of the 20th century experimental and theoretical progress developed together; nowadays quantum optics provides a testbed of many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Dan Browne , Sougato Bose , Florian Mintert , M. S. Kim

As a power and bandwidth efficient modulation scheme, the optical spatial modulation (SM) technique has recently drawn increased attention in the field of visible light communications (VLC). To guarantee the number of bits mapped by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jin-Yuan Wang , Hong Ge , Jian-Xia Zhu , Jun-Bo Wang , Jianxin Dai , Min Lin