光学
High-quality planar cavities with low-absorption mirrors based on $Al_{0.2}Ga_{0.8}As/Al_{0.9}Ga_{0.1}As$ layers demonstrate continuous wave lasing at a wavelength of 956 nm. At 300 K, the threshold power density and quality-factor at the…
Raman spectroscopy and Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) are complementary, non-destructive techniques that provide rich and distinct insights into the structural and electronic properties of materials. Raman spectroscopy offers detailed…
Reliable identification of microplastic fibers is crucial for environmental monitoring but remains analytically challenging. We report an explainable deep-learning framework for classifying microplastic and natural microfibers using…
Optically generated microwave signals exhibit some of the lowest phase noise and timing jitter of any microwave-generating technology to date. The success of octave-spanning optical frequency combs in down-converting ultrastable optical…
Originally envisioned as a solution for the capacity crunch in telecommunications networks, multicore fibers (MCF) are contributing to scientific fields beyond telecom, such as sensing and metrology. Confined within the same cladding, the…
Integrated green light sources are essential for telecommunications and quantum applications, while the performance of current on-chip green light generation is still limited in power and tunability. In this work, we demonstrate green light…
We report on a study exploring the design of nanoparticles that can enhance their laser refrigeration efficiency for applications in levitated optomechanics. In particular, we developed lanthanide-doped nanocrystals with an inert shell…
Optical resonator-enhanced nonlinear interactions are of great importance for the efficient generation of continuous-wave second harmonic generation, optical parametric oscillation, frequency mixing, and the generation of squeezed light. In…
Temporal coherence of driven-dissipative condensates is limited by phase noise. We show that mirror-mediated time-delayed self-feedback enables control of coherence in a trapped exciton-polariton condensate. Reinjecting a small fraction of…
Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) extends active three-dimensional sensing at the fundamental level and has found applications in extreme environments involving long-range operation, low-reflectance targets, and adverse…
We demonstrate submicrometer focusing of isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) region using a custom ellipsoidal mirror. The obtained focal spot sizes were verified using knife-edge measurements with a sharp…
A K-mirror rotates the wavefront of an incident optical field. However, the rotation always introduces polarization changes in the transmitted field. This is a serious concern for applications ranging from astronomical image derotation to…
The vectorial structure of light, amplitude, phase, and polarization, encodes essential information for applications ranging from super-resolution microscopy to high-capacity communications and quantum information processing. However,…
Truly chiral phonons are lattice eigenmodes that combine broken mirror symmetry with circular atomic motion. They can mediate angular-momentum-selective interactions in quantum materials, yet directly resolving both their chirality and…
Inverse design has made vast physical parameter spaces a substrate for emergent behavior. In sensing, the stakes of this principle are sharpest at the analog-to-digital boundary, where any information the hardware fails to capture is…
Accurate and real-time sensing of targets in three-dimensional (3D) environments is essential for modern machine vision, underpinning emerging technologies such as autonomous systems, robotic manipulation, augmented reality, and intelligent…
Classical optical frameworks such as the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) assume that the linear spectrum of coupled quantum emitters can be computed solely from the linear susceptibilities of individual constituents. However, recent…
We propose an orbital angular momentum (OAM) quantum holography scheme based on multi-mode Bessel-Gaussian (MBG) beams. Entangled photon pairs are generated through spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) process, and the axis prism…
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing offers a promising approach to high-capacity optical communication by harnessing the orthogonality of vortex beams. However, its practical deployment is severely limited in real-world settings…
Chiral photonics provides powerful routes for controlling the light handedness, yet nonlinear chiral responses are typically associated with intricate three-dimensional systems. Here, we demonstrate that strong nonlinear chirality can…