光学
Nonlinear pulse propagation in gas-filled waveguides has attracted substantial attention over the past decade, and a variety of capabilities have been reported. However, there is no prior report of spectral compression in gas-filled…
Reconstructive spectrometers are a promising emerging class of devices that combine complex light scattering with inference to enable compact, high-resolution spectrometry. Thus far, the physical determinants of these devices' performance…
Despite the intrinsic coupling between electric and magnetic fields in random stationary light, their polarization properties are not mutually determined. A complete second-order description thus necessitates a joint electromagnetic…
Interferometric Particle Imaging (IPI) is a powerful technique to characterize aerosol particles, which so far has been applied only to particles larger than about 100 wavelengths. We extend its applicability to smaller ice crystals,…
Single photons in Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams, which carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), could enable more robust and efficient photonic quantum communication and information processing, as well as enhanced sensitivity in quantum…
We present BIFROST, a first-principles model of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers. Unlike conventional models, BIFROST employs physically motivated representations of the PMD properties of fibers, allowing users to…
Quantum optical neurons (QONs) are emerging as promising computational units that leverage photonic interference to perform neural operations in an energy-efficient and physically grounded manner. Building on recent theoretical proposals,…
Vibrational sum- and difference-frequency generation (SFG and DFG) spectroscopy probes the nonlinear response of interfaces at mid-infrared (MIR) wavelengths while detecting upconverted signals in the visible. Recent work has moved from…
We develop and demonstrate a first-principles approach, based on the nonlinear Maxwell-Bloch equations and steady-state ab-initio laser theory (SALT), for inverse design of nanostructured lasers, incorporating spatial hole-burning…
High-resolution electro-optic frequency combs (EO combs) consisting of thousands to millions of comb teeth across a bandwidth between 1 GHz to 500 GHz are powerful tools for atomic, molecular, and cavity-based spectroscopy, including in the…
Super-resolution imaging has revolutionized the study of systems ranging from molecular structures to distant galaxies. However, existing super-resolution methods require extensive calibration and retraining for each imaging setup, limiting…
The exploitation of the strong light-matter coupling regime and exciton-polariton condensates has emerged as a compelling approach to introduce strong interactions and nonlinearities into numerous photonic applications, ranging from…
The tunability of individual coupling amplitudes in photonic lattices is highly desirable for photonic Hamiltonian engineering and for studying topological transitions in situ. In this work, we demonstrate the tunneling control between…
All-optical logic has the potential to overcome the operation speed barrier that has persisted in electronic circuits for two decades. However, the development of scalable architectures has been prevented so far by the lack of materials…
In this letter, we numerically investigate a long-haul coherent data transmission system with a cascade of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). We exploit low-complexity neural networks that can be implemented in real time to compensate…
Localized surface plasmon resonances are self-sustained, collective oscillations of free electrons in metallic nanostructures. They have a wide range of applications. The most common plasmonic metals are noble metals, such as gold and…
Determination of orientation in the imaged sample/scene has a large application potential when the anisotropy of properties is analysed, usually, under a linearly polarised illumination. This study combined several improvements of…
Structured-core thulium-doped fibers were developed to reduce heat load, enable shorter-wavelength operation, and achieve a pedestal-free design. In a proof-of-principle experiment, laser slope efficiencies of 52% at 1907 nm and 54% at 1940…
Understanding the complex anisotropic acoustic propagation in crystals is crucial for optimizing the performance of surface and bulk acoustic wave devices. Here, we investigate the anisotropy and coupling of GHz acoustic modes in (001)-cut…
Programmable shaping of femtosecond ultraviolet (UV) pulses is still much less flexible than at visible and near-infrared wavelengths, mainly because direct UV modulators remain limited in bandwidth, throughput and damage threshold. Here we…