光学
Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has attained high spatiotemporal delineation of subcellular architecture, yet offers limited insight into chemical composition. We develop Chem-SIM, a structured-illumination fluorescence detected…
Solar-pumped lasers, predominantly based on neodymium gain media, offer a promising route to renewable laser-energy conversion and space-based photonics; however, their performance has been constrained by thermal loading and limited power…
This study presents a self-consistent, quantum-informed model for the decay dynamics of localized surface plasmons (LSPs) in spherical metal nanoparticles (NPs), described as plasmonic quasi-particles (PQPs). By bridging classical…
We report an advanced formulation of the Fourier modal method developed for two-dimensionally periodic multilayered structures containing materials with non-zero macroscopic magneto-electric coefficients (also known as coefficients of…
Rare-earth gain media form the foundation of modern optical communications, emerging quantum hardware, and ultrafast optics. While chip-scale integration can enable fiber-like, and potentially beyond-fiber, functionality with unprecedented…
Extended depth of field microscopy encodes axial information into a single acquisition through engineered point spread functions, but conventional and deep optics approaches are subject to degradation in scattering tissue. We introduce…
We present a fast time-domain simulator for optical cavities capable of reproducing non-linear dynamical regimes arising from ring-down effect during resonance crossings at high mirror velocities. The model is based on a recursive…
We report the observation of a long-lived non-stationary state of light in a single-mode optical cavity. The observed state is a ghost of a saddle-node bifurcation which creates a bottleneck in phase space. While such ghosts are known to…
High-order edge-enhanced imaging enables precise feature localization and effective background suppression, offering a powerful tool for real-time recognition and high-contrast visualization. Extending this capability to the mid-infrared…
Vector beams, whose polarization varies across the transverse profile, are a central resource in structured-light optics and quantum photonics. Their characterization, however, becomes challenging when the field lies in a spectral region…
Speckle is an intrinsic pattern in optical coherence tomography (OCT) that obscures fine image features and degrades effective resolution. In this study, we propose a numerical speckle reduction method based on the dispersed scatterer model…
The conventional formulation of power absorption, optical forces, and torques on dipolar particles involve lenghty and cumbersome expressions that obscure their shared physical origin. We apply a bispinor formalism that unifies these…
Laser ablation in liquids enables the synthesis of surfactant-free nanoparticles but remains limited in productivity due to intrinsic constraints imposed by the liquid environment. These constraints include nonlinear optical losses,…
To address the fundamental limitations imposed by chromatic dispersion and environmental susceptibility in standard single-mode fiber (SMF) for long-haul high-precision time transfer, we systematically explore the application potential of…
We demonstrate an on-chip 0.96 TOPS hyperdimensional photonic tensor core by utilizing a time-spacewavelength multiplexed silicon photonic Crossbar (Xbar). The novel architecture relies on serializing the large matrix-vector or…
Achieving reliable joining between transparent materials and metals under non-optical-contact conditions remains challenging due to limited energy coupling and uncontrolled interfacial reaction across $\mu$m-scale gaps. Burst-mode ultrafast…
Optical neural networks offer a route to low-latency and energy-efficient inference by encoding computation in light propagation. However, most existing implementations rely on planar photonic circuits or discretely spaced diffractive…
Ultrafast optical imaging has enabled direct observation of femtosecond-nanosecond dynamics, yet three-dimensional (3D) dynamic measurements at high numerical aperture (NA) remain hindered by the intrinsically shallow depth of field (DoF)…
Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as a promising solid-state platform for quantum technology applications. However, a persistent challenge in the field is the unclear origin of many observed emission lines,…
Natural hyperbolic materials offer a powerful platform for light-matter interactions by supporting highly anisotropic electromagnetic modes without the need for artificial patterning. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate that the…