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We report on a reflective wave-plate system utilizing phase-shifting mirrors (PSM) for a continuous variation of elliptical polarization without changing the beam position and direction. The scalability of multilayer optics to large…

We have shown both experimentally and theoretically that polarization-independent broad-band absorption of electromagnetic waves by an overdense plasma, caused by surface plasmon-polaritons (SPP) excitation, can be achieved due to…

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We report on a giant Faraday effect in an electron plasma in n-InSb probed via polarization-resolved terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy. Polarization rotation angles and ellipticities reach as large as {\pi}/2 and 1, respectively,…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-24 T. Arikawa , X. Wang , A. A. Belyanin , J. Kono

The precise control of phonon polaritons(PhPs) is essential for advancements in nanophotonic applications like on-chip optical communication and quantum information processing. Ghost hyperbolic phonon polaritons (g-HPs), which have been…

Optical skyrmions have recently been constructed by tailoring electric or spin field distributions through the interference of multiple surface plasmon polaritons, offering promising features for advanced information processing, transport…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-11 Zi-Lan Deng , Tan Shi , Alex Krasnok , Xiangping Li , Andrea Alù

Light transport in a highly multimode fiber exhibits complex behavior in space, time, frequency and polarization, especially in the presence of mode coupling. The newly developed techniques of spatial wavefront shaping turn out to be highly…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-06 Hui Cao , Tomáš Čižmár , Sergey Turtaev , Tomáš Tyc , Stefan Rotter

The propagation distance of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on metal nanowires is severely limited by their short lifetime, primarily due to strong metallic losses. In this work, we show that the lifetime-and thus the propagation…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-30 Rasim Volga Ovali , Mehmet Emre Tasgin

Long-period transients (LPTs) are a new and enigmatic class of objects that produce bright pulsations in the radio, with periods far exceeding those seen in rotationally powered pulsars. The proposed progenitors for LPTs are contested, with…

Nontrivial topology in bulk matter has been linked with the existence of topologically protected interfacial states. We show that a gaseous plasmon polariton (GPP), an electromagnetic surface wave existing at the boundary of magnetized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Jeffrey B. Parker , J. B. Marston , Steven M. Tobias , Ziyan Zhu

Laser fields can be shaped on a subwavelength scale as to have a specific distribution in spin angular momentum, orbital structure, or topology. We study how these various features affect the strongly nonlinear electron dynamics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Jonas Wätzel , Jamal Berakdar

Using full-wave numerical simulations and analytical multipole expansions we investigated the properties of real-space polarization singularities that emerge in light scattering by subwavelength particles. We considered spherical and torus…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-18 Jie Peng , Wei Liu , Shubo Wang

Layered topological insulators, for example, Bi$_2$Se$_3$ are optically hyperbolic materials in a range of THz frequencies. Such materials possess deeply subdiffractional, highly directional collective modes: hyperbolic phonon-polaritons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Jhih-Sheng Wu , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

Sub-wavelength electromagnetic field localization has been central in photonic research in the last decade, allowing to enhance sensing capabilities as well as increasing the coupling between photons and material excitations. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Shima Rajabali , Erika Cortese , Mattias Beck , Simone De Liberato , Jérôme Faist , Giacomo Scalari

We discuss peculiarities of bulk and surface polaritons propagating in a composite magnetic-semiconductor superlattice influenced by an external static magnetic field. Three particular configurations of magnetization, namely the Voigt,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-21 Vladimir R. Tuz , Illia V. Fedorin , Volodymyr I. Fesenko

High-power femtosecond laser radiation propagates nonlinearly in air exhibiting pulse self-focusing and strong multiphoton medium ionization, which leads to the spatial fragmentation of laser pulse into highly-localized light channels…

Engineering local angular momentum of structured light fields in real space enables unprecedented applications in many fields, in particular for the realization of unidirectional robust transport in topological photonic crystals with…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-19 Wei-Min Deng , Xiao-Dong Chen , Fu-Li Zhao , Jian-Wen Dong

In this paper we predict many interesting new properties of vortices in highly anisotropic density wave systems subject to strong transverse electric fields. We mainly concentrate on ground state properties. Besides electric field-induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Akakii Melikidze

In the spirit of continued study of general plasma wave properties we investigated the boundary problem with the simplest form of electric field pulse at the edge x=0 of half-infinite uniform plasma slab with Maxwellian electron…

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We reveal the existence of the surface plasmonic lattice solitons (surface PLSs) at the boundary of a semi-infinite metallic-dielectric periodic nano-structure. We find that the truncation of the periodic structure imposes a threshold power…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yao Kou , Fangwei Ye , Xianfeng Chen

The propagation of the collective surface plasmons, called plasmon-polaritons, in infinite equidistant ionic sphere chain has been analyzed. The ideal cancellation of irradiative losses of these ionic excitations in the chain is…

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