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Local intensity enhancement by plasmonic nanoparticles is widely used in optics and photonics. However, the effect is usually based on dipole resonances in the particles. Recently, it has been shown that quadrupole and octupole resonances…
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) provides a powerful platform for investigating low-energy excitations in quantum materials. Because these materials are often limited in size, experimental setups typically rely on tightly…
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) has become a powerful tool for investigating the optical properties of thin films, offering direct access to the complex permittivity in the terahertz range. However, in transmission-based…
The nonorthogonality of modes in open systems significantly modifies their resonant response, resulting in quantitative and qualitative deviations from Breit-Wigner resonance relations. For isolated resonances with a Lorentzian lineshape,…
Optical frequency combs and their spectra of evenly spaced discrete laser lines are essential to modern time and frequency metrology. Recent advances in integrated photonic waveguides enable efficient nonlinear broadening of an initially…
We theoretically propose a new approach to in-situ monitor the altered states of pixels in VO2 based active THz amplitude metagrating by using surface acoustic waves (SAWs) generated in LiNbO3 substrate. A single broadband RF response of…
Recent studies have established and rigorously validated a modified Langevin noise formalism that enables first-principles quantization of electromagnetic fields in open and dissipative environments [1,2,3]. Building on this foundation, a…
Optical thermalization has been recently studied theoretically and experimentally in the 2D spatial evolution of (quasi-)monochromatic light waves propagating in multimode fibers. In this work, we investigate the spatio-temporal equilibrium…
Pump-probe microscopy enables label-free imaging of structural and chemical features of samples. However, signals in pump-probe microscopy are typically small and often must be measured in the presence of large backgrounds. As a result,…
Fabrication of X-ray gratings has surged in the last two decades thanks to their vast employment in X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging, an imaging technique able to boost X-ray sensitivity to detect otherwise invisible details. These high aspect…
The scalability of quantum photonic integrated circuits opens the path towards large-scale quantum computing and communication. To date, this scalability has been limited by the stochastic nature of the quantum light sources. Moreover,…
The space in front of a projector or camera can be folded into a light-guide by total-internal reflection if the guide is tapered like a wedge. This article explains how to calculate both flat and curved wedges by scaling a thin version…
Studying the dynamical behavior of micro- and nano-mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) is essential in various fields from nonlinear dynamics to quantum technologies. Hence, it is important to be able to precisely monitor the mechanical…
We report an efficient extension of supercontinuum generation through dispersion engineering of crystalline aluminum nitride (AlN)-on-sapphire waveguides. Using a tailored epitaxial regrowth of AlN epilayers and an optimized fabrication…
Irradiation of sharp silver tips with femtosecond laser pulses leads to photoassisted coherent field emission without a static field. We reconstruct the time profile of the emission, and show that the process is entirely governed by the…
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and large-scale machine learning is driving an urgent demand for short-reach optical interconnects featuring large bandwidth, low power consumption, high integration density,…
Precise modeling of extended sources is a central challenge in modern optical engineering, laser physics, and computational lithography. Unlike ideal point sources or completely incoherent thermal radiation sources, real-world light sources…
Significance: Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs; also known as SSPDs) show enormous promise for low-light biomedical imaging by offering exceptional sensitivity, picosecond timing resolution, and broad spectral…
Can a single label-free image reveal whether cancer cells were exposed to chemotherapy? We present an innovative methodology on the label-free and high-resolution imaging properties of phase holotomographic microscopy coupled with neural…
We report a monochrome multi-task diffractive network architecture that leverages illumination phase multiplexing to dynamically reconfigure its output function and accurately implement a large group of complex-valued linear transformations…