光学
Fluorescence depletion microscopy techniques such as STED and RESOLFT require optical fields with a well-defined and spatially confined central intensity minimum to achieve sub-diffraction lateral resolution. Here, we present the design and…
High-power lasers with narrow linewidth and high beam quality in the visible spectrum are essential for emerging quantum and space technologies. Here we report significant advances in diamond Raman lasers, generating diffraction-limited…
Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as a leading platform for large-scale programmable photonic circuits for quantum and classical applications. As circuits scale in complexity, low-loss routing of broadband pump and signal fields…
Lightsails are promising spacecraft that can traverse interstellar distances within decades via radiation-pressure propulsion from high-power lasers. The envisioned missions crucially rely on the sail being confined within the propelling…
We study first-return statistics for photons undergoing three-dimensional Henyey-Greenstein scattering in a semi-infinite medium. In previous work, we showed that one-dimensional first-passage probabilities can be expanded using Catalan and…
In coherent optical communication across turbulent atmospheric channels, reference beacons can be multiplexed with information-encoded signals during transmission. In this case, it is commonly assumed that the wavefront distortion of the…
Soliton optical frequency combs have become key enablers for a wide range of applications, including telecommunications, optical atomic clocks, ultrafast distance measurements, dual-comb spectroscopy, and astrophysical spectrometer…
We propose a scheme to generate hyperentanglement between photons carrying angular momentum in nanophotonic systems with discrete rotational symmetry. Coupling free-space photons into surface plasmon polaritons by a polygonal-shaped grating…
Understanding and minimizing the sources of frequency noise in nanomechanical resonators is crucial for many sensing applications. In this work, we report an ultracoherent perimeter-mode nanomechanical resonator co-integrated with an…
In this study, we investigated the propagation pattern and the site-to-site correlation function in a PT-symmetric waveguide array with different input quantum states. Recognizing the stark difference in propagation pattern before and after…
We propose an inverse-design approach for computational spectrometers in which the scattering media are topology-optimized to achieve better performance in inference of unknown spectra. Unlike traditional end-to-end approaches, our inverse…
Optical frequency comb devices have unlocked new capabilities in telecommunications, sensing, and metrology. Yet, precise in situ control of the comb spectral envelope remains extremely challenging. By introducing mode coupling with…
This paper presents a novel neural-implicit approach to laser absorption tomography (LAT) with an experimental demonstration. A coordinate neural network is used to represent thermochemical state variables as continuous functions of space…
For decades since the development of phase-contrast optical microscopy, an analogous approach has been sought for maximizing the image contrast of weakly-scattering objects in transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The recent development…
The Pound--Drever--Hall (PDH) technique is routinely used to stabilize the frequency of a laser to a reference cavity. Electronic sideband (ESB) locking, a PDH variant, bridges the frequency gap between the discrete cavity resonances and a…
High-quality low-dimensional layered and van der Waals materials are typically exfoliated, with sample cross sectional areas on the order of tens to hundreds of microns. The small size of flakes makes the experimental characterization of…
Blackbody thermal emission is spatially diffuse. Achieving highly directional thermal emission typically requires nanostructuring the surface of the thermally emissive medium. The most common configuration is a subwavelength grating that…
Focal plane arrays (FPAs) promise robust solid-state beam steering for LiDAR and free-space optical communications. However, the need for external collimation lenses hinders chip-scale compactness. Discrete switching between FPA elements…
Fluorescence imaging is an essential diagnostic tool in many fields, but diffraction-limited optical imaging at depth is limited by scattering. Here, we present a method based on multiple random illuminations, combined with a computational…
Spin-orbit interactions of light couple polarization and spatial degrees of freedom, underpinning phenomena such as the spin Hall effect of light. Although widely explored at interfaces and in tightly focused beams, their impact in…