Publications (257)
Universal behavior of the scattering matrix near thresholds in photonics
Charles C. Wojcik, Haiwen Wang, Meir Orenstein +1
Scattering thresholds and their associated spectral square root branch points are ubiquitous in photonics. In this Letter, we show that the scattering matrix has a simple universal…
Localization and time-reversal of light through dynamic modulation
Momchil Minkov, Shanhui Fan
We study the dynamics of a waveguide made of coupled resonators with a sinusoidal modulation of the resonance frequencies. We present a modulation scheme that achieves complete dyn…
Accelerating Adjoint Variable Method Based Photonic Optimization with Schur Complement Domain Decomposition
Nathan Zhao, Salim Boutami, Shanhui Fan
Adjoint variable method in combination with gradient descent optimization has been widely used for the inverse design of nanophotonic devices. In many of such optimizations, the de…
Complete photonic bandgaps in supercell photonic crystals
Alexander Cerjan, Shanhui Fan
We develop a class of supercell photonic crystals supporting complete photonic bandgaps based on breaking spatial symmetries of the underlying primitive photonic crystal. One membe…
Broadband optical switch based on an achromatic photonic gauge potential in dynamically modulated waveguides
Ian A. D. Williamson, Shanhui Fan
We demonstrate that a photonic gauge potential, which arises from the phase degree of freedom in dynamic refractive-index modulation and hence is achormatic, can be used to achieve…
Braiding of dynamical eigenvalues of Hermitian bosonic Kitaev chains
Heming Wang, Shanhui Fan
In quantum mechanics, observables correspond to Hermitian operators, and the spectra are restricted to be real. However, the dynamics of the underlying fields may allow complex eig…
Nonequilibrium Casimir effects of nonreciprocal surface waves
Chinmay Khandekar, Siddharth Buddhiraju, Paul R. Wilkinson +4
We show that an isotropic dipolar particle in the vicinity of a substrate made of nonreciprocal plasmonic materials can experience a lateral Casimir force and torque when the parti…
Inverse design of lightweight broadband reflector for efficient lightsail propulsion
Weiliang Jin, Wei Li, Meir Orenstein +1
Light can exert forces on objects, promising to propel a meter-scale lightsail to near the speed of light. The key to address many challenges in such an ambition hinges on the nano…
Thermodynamic Limits of Energy Harvesting from Outgoing Thermal Radiation
Siddharth Buddhiraju, Parthiban Santhanam, Shanhui Fan
We derive the thermodynamic limits of harvesting power from the outgoing thermal radiation from the ambient to the cold outer space. The derivations are based on a duality relation…
Achieving arbitrary polarization control using complex birefringent meta-materials
Alexander Cerjan, Shanhui Fan
We demonstrate that the key to realizing arbitrary control over pairs of polarization states of light, i.e. transforming an arbitrarily polarized pair of input states to an arbitra…
Two-photon transport through a waveguide coupling to a whispering gallery resonator containing an atom and photon-blockade effect
T. Shi, Shanhui Fan
We investigate the two-photon transport through a waveguide side-coupling to a whispering-gallery-atom system. Using the Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmermann (LSZ) reduction approach, we pr…
Automated modal analysis of entanglement with bipartite self-configuring optics
Charles Roques-Carmes, Aviv Karnieli, David A. B. Miller +1
Entanglement is a unique feature of quantum mechanics. In coupled systems of light and matter, entanglement manifests itself in the linear superposition of multipartite quantum sta…
Three-dimensional random dielectric colloid metamaterial with giant isotropic optical activity
Viktar Asadchy, Cheng Guo, Ihar Faniayeu +1
Motivated by the theoretical observation that isotropic chirality can exist even in completely random systems, we design a dielectric metamaterial consisting of a random colloid of…
Stimulated Emission from a single excited atom in a waveguide
Eden Rephaeli, Shanhui Fan
We study stimulated emission from an excited two-level atom coupled to a waveguide containing an incident single-photon pulse. We show that the strong photon correlation, as induce…
Angular constraint on light-trapping absorption enhancement in solar cells
Zongfu Yu, Shanhui Fan
Light trapping for solar cells can reduce production cost and improve energy conversion efficiency. Understanding some of the basic theoretical constraints on light trapping is the…
Detecting the relative phase between different frequency components of a photon using a three-level atom coupled to a waveguide
Janet Zhong, Rituraj, Fatih Dinc +1
We study the scattering of a single photon propagating along a waveguide in an arbitrary superposition state two frequencies with a single three-level atom in a superposition…
Time reflection and refraction in synthetic frequency dimension
Olivia Y. Long, Kai Wang, Avik Dutt +1
The duality of space and time in Maxwell's equations has prompted interest in time boundaries and the accompanying temporal analog of spatial reflection and refraction. However, ac…
Quantum-coherent optical isolation and circulation using frequency conversion on a chip
Jierui Hu, Hao Yuan, Joshua Akin +2
Breaking optical reciprocity enables new regimes of light--matter interaction with broad implications for fundamental physics and emerging quantum technologies. Although various ap…
Hyperbolic Weyl point in reciprocal chiral metamaterial
Meng Xiao, Qian Lin, Shanhui Fan
We report the existence of Weyl points in a class of non-central symmetric metamaterials, which has time reversal symmetry, but does not have inversion symmetry due to chiral coupl…
Creating anyons from photons using a nonlinear resonator lattice subject to dynamic modulation
Luqi Yuan, Meng Xiao, Shanshan Xu +1
We study a one-dimensional photonic resonator lattice with Kerr nonlinearity under the dynamic modulation. With an appropriate choice of the modulation frequency and phase, we find…
Doubly resonant second-harmonic generation of a vortex beam from a bound state in the continuum
Jun Wang, Marco Clementi, Momchil Minkov +7
Second harmonic generation in nonlinear materials can be greatly enhanced by realizing doubly-resonant cavities with high quality factors. However, fulfilling such doubly resonant…
Topological spin defects of light
Haiwen Wang, Charles C. Wojcik, Shanhui Fan
Topological defects are found in a variety of systems, and their existence are robust under perturbations due to their topological nature. Here we introduce a new type of topologic…
Forward-Mode Differentiation of Maxwell's Equations
Tyler W Hughes, Ian A D Williamson, Momchil Minkov +1
We present a previously unexplored forward-mode differentiation method for Maxwell's equations, with applications in the field of sensitivity analysis. This approach yields exact g…
Efficient method for accelerating line searches using a combined Schur complement domain decomposition and Born series expansions in photonic-based adjoint optimization
Nathan Zhao, Salim Boutami, Shanhui Fan
A line search in gradient-based optimization algorithm solves the problem of determining the optimal learning rate for a given gradient or search direction in a single iteration. F…
Fundamental limit of light trapping in grating structures
Zongfu Yu, Aaswath Raman, Shanhui Fan
We use a rigorous electromagnetic approach to analyze the fundamental limit of light-trapping enhancement in grating structures. This limit can exceed the bulk limit of 4n^2, but h…
Ideal Optical Antimatter using Passive Lossy Materials under Complex Frequency Excitation
Olivia Y. Long, Peter B. Catrysse, Seunghoon Han +1
The original concept of left-handed material has inspired the possibility of optical antimatter, where the effect of light propagation through a medium can be completely cancelled…
Universal programmable and self-configuring optical filter
David A. B. Miller, Charles Roques-Carmes, Carson G. Valdez +4
We propose an approach to integrated optical spectral filtering that allows arbitrary programmability, can compensate automatically for imperfections in filter fabrication, allows…
Roadmap on Nonlocality in Photonic Materials and Metamaterials
Francesco Monticone, N. Asger Mortensen, Antonio I. Fernández-DomÃnguez +63
Photonic technologies continue to drive the quest for new optical materials with unprecedented responses. A major frontier in this field is the exploration of nonlocal (spatially d…
Thermodynamics of light management in near-field thermophotovoltaics
Georgia T. Papadakis, Meir Orenstein, Eli Yablonovitch +1
We evaluate near-field thermophotovoltaic (TPV) energy conversion systems focusing in particular on their open-circuit voltage (Voc). Unlike previous analyses based largely on nume…
General structure of two-photon S matrix in waveguide quantum electrodynamics systems containing a local quantum system with multiple ground states
Shanshan Xu, Shanhui Fan
We present the general structure of two-photon S matrix for a waveguide coupled to a local quantum system that supports multiple ground states. The presence of the multiple ground…
Doping-driven topological polaritons in graphene/α-MoO3 heterostructures
Hai Hu, Na Chen, Hanchao Teng +15
Controlling the charge carrier density provides an efficient way to trigger phase transitions and modulate the optoelectronic properties in natural materials. This approach could b…
Roadmap on Topological Photonics
Hannah Price, Yidong Chong, Alexander Khanikaev +20
Topological photonics seeks to control the behaviour of the light through the design of protected topological modes in photonic structures. While this approach originated from stud…
Control of chirality and directionality of nonlinear metasurface light source via twisting
Huanyu Zhou, Xueqi Ni, Beicheng Lou +3
Metasurfaces have revolutionized nonlinear and quantum light manipulation in the past decade, enabling the design of materials that can tune polarization, frequency, and direction…
Photon blockade in weakly-driven cavity QED systems with many emitters
Rahul Trivedi, Marina Radulaski, Kevin A. Fischer +2
We use the scattering matrix formalism to analyze photon blockade in coherently-driven CQED systems with a weak drive. By approximating the weak coherent drive by an input single-…
Electronically Programmable Photonic Molecule
Mian Zhang, Cheng Wang, Yaowen Hu +4
Physical systems with discrete energy levels are ubiquitous in nature and are fundamental building blocks of quantum technology. Realizing controllable artifcial atom- and molecule…
On-chip multi-degree-of-freedom control of two-dimensional quantum and nonlinear materials
Haoning Tang, Yiting Wang, Xueqi Ni +7
Two-dimensional materials (2DM) and their derived heterostructures have electrical and optical properties that are widely tunable via several approaches, most notably electrostatic…
Persistent Directional Current at Equilibrium in Nonreciprocal Many-Body Near Field Electromagnetic Heat Transfer
Linxiao Zhu, Shanhui Fan
We consider the consequence of nonreciprocity in near-field heat transfer by studying systems consisting of magneto-optical nanoparticles.We demonstrate that, in thermal equilibriu…
Effect of Choices of Boundary Conditions on the Numerical Efficiency of Direct Solutions of Finite Difference frequency Domain Systems with Perfectly Matched Layers
Nathan Zhao, Shanhui Fan
Direct solvers are a common method for solving finite difference frequency domain (FDFD) systems that arise in numerical solutions of Maxwell's equations. In a direct solver, one f…
Artificial non-Abelian lattice gauge fields for photons in the synthetic frequency dimension
Dali Cheng, Kai Wang, Shanhui Fan
Non-Abelian gauge fields give rise to nontrivial topological physics. Here we develop a scheme to create an arbitrary SU(2) lattice gauge field for photons in the synthetic frequen…
Few-photon single-atom cavity QED with input-output formalism in Fock Space
Eden Rephaeli, Shanhui Fan
The Jaynes-Cummings (JC) system, which describes the interaction between a cavity and a two-level atom, is one of the most important systems in quantum optics. We obtain analytic s…
Quadrature-Dependent Lattice Dynamics of Dissipative Microcombs
Eran Lustig, Melissa A. Guidry, Daniil M. Lukin +2
The study of coupled networks with parametric amplification of the vacuum fluctuations has garnered increasing interest due to its intricate physics and potential applications. In…
Experimental evaluation of digitally-verifiable photonic computing for blockchain and cryptocurrency
Sunil Pai, Taewon Park, Marshall Ball +9
As blockchain technology and cryptocurrency become increasingly mainstream, ever-increasing energy costs required to maintain the computational power running these decentralized pl…
Direct Object Recognition Without Line-of-Sight Using Optical Coherence
Xin Lei, Liangyu He, Yixuan Tan +5
Visual object recognition under situations in which the direct line-of-sight is blocked, such as when it is occluded around the corner, is of practical importance in a wide range o…
Universal and ultrafast quantum computation based on free-electron-polariton blockade
Aviv Karnieli, Shai Tsesses, Renwen Yu +4
Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), wherein a quantum emitter is coupled to electromagnetic cavity modes, is a powerful platform for implementing quantum sensors, memories, and n…
Generating topological non-diffracting beams using high quality factor nonlocal metasurfaces
Dongha Kim, Charles Pelzman, Cheng Guo +3
Non-diffracting optical beams are essential tools in photonics, enabling robust light transport, super-resolution imaging, and spatiotemporal control. While nonlocal metasurfaces h…
Quantum correlated photons via a passive nonlinear microcavity
Mengdi Zhao, Yunkai Wang, Shanhui Fan +1
Photons, by nature, typically do not exhibit interactions with each other. Creating photon-photon interactions holds immense importance in both fundamental physics and quantum tech…
Programmable Optical Filters Based on Feed-Forward Photonic Meshes
Carson G. Valdez, Anne R. Kroo, Marek Vlk +4
We demonstrate an integrated photonic circuit based on feed forward photonic meshes that can be programmed and reconfigured to perform arbitrary spectral filter functions. We inves…
Three-dimensional Chiral Lattice Fermion in Floquet Systems
Xiao-Qi Sun, Meng Xiao, Tomáš Bzdušek +2
We show that the Nielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem still holds on Floquet lattice: there is an equal number of right-handed and left-handed Weyl points in 3D Floquet lattice. However,…
Few photon transport in a waveguide coupled to a pair of collocated two-level atoms
Eden Rephaeli, Sukru Ekin Kocabas, Shanhui Fan
We calculate the one- and two-photon scattering matrices of a pair of collocated non-identical two-level atoms coupled to a waveguide. We show that by proper choice of a two-photon…
Maximal nighttime electrical power generation via optimal radiative cooling
Lingling Fan, Wei Li, Weiliang Jin +2
We present a systematic optimization of nighttime thermoelectric power generation system utilizing radiative cooling. We show that an electrical power density over 2 W/m2, two orde…
Fundamental bounds for scattering from absorptionless electromagnetic structures
Rahul Trivedi, Guillermo Angeris, Logan Su +3
The ability to design the scattering properties of electromagnetic structures is of fundamental interest in optical science and engineering. While there has been great practical su…
Photonic modal circulator using temporal refractive-index modulation with spatial inversion symmetry
Jiahui Wang, Jason F. Herrmann, Jeremy D. Witmer +2
It has been demonstrated that dynamic refractive index modulation, which breaks time-reversal symmetry, can be used to create on-chip non-reciprocal photonic devices. In order to a…
Band Inversion Flips the Winding of Bound States in the Continuum
Paul Bouteyre, Dung Xuan Nguyen, Loïc Malgrey +10
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) in photonic slabs and metasurfaces appear as polarization singularities in momentum space, characterized by an integer winding number. This win…
Electro-optical silicon isolator
Hugo Lira, Zongfu Yu, Shanhui Fan +1
We create a non-magnetic CMOS-compatible optical isolator on a silicon chip. The isolator is based on indirect interband photonic transition, induced by electrically-driven dynamic…
Strongly Correlated Two-Photon Transport in One-Dimensional Waveguide Coupled to A Two-Level System
Jung-Tsung Shen, Shanhui Fan
We show that two-photon transport is strongly correlated in one-dimensional waveguide coupled to a two-level system. The exact S-matrix is constructed using a generalized Bethe-Ans…
Theory of single-photon transport in a single-mode waveguide coupled to a cavity containing a two-level atom
Jung-Tsung Shen, Shanhui Fan
The single-photon transport in a single-mode waveguide, coupled to a cavity embedded with a two-leval atom is analyzed. The single-photon transmission and reflection amplitudes, as…
Dosimetric characterization of a nanophotonic scintillator and applications to real-time in-vivo total body irradiation dosimetry
W. Jeffrey Zabel, Dixin Chen, Louis Martin-Monier +7
Purpose: Recent advances in metasurface photonics and manufacturing have enabled a nanophotonic surface coating to be applied to conventional scintillators, which has been shown to…
Integrated Nonreciprocal Photonic Devices with Dynamic Modulation
Ian A. D. Williamson, Momchil Minkov, Avik Dutt +3
Nonreciprocal components, such as isolators and circulators, are crucial components for photonic systems. In this article we review theoretical and experimental progress towards de…
Spatial control of surface plasmon polariton excitation at planar metal surface
Zhichao Ruan, Hui Wu, Min Qiu +1
We illustrate that the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) excitation through the prism coupling method is fundamentally limited by destructive interference of spatial light components…
Comment on "Linear and passive silicon optical isolator" in Scientific Reports 2, 674
Alexander Petrov, Dirk Jalas, Manfred Eich +10
Wang et al. [1] demonstrated different power transmission coefficients for forward and backward propagation in simulation and experiment. From such a demonstration, the central cla…
Synthetic Dimension in Photonics
Luqi Yuan, Qian Lin, Meng Xiao +1
The physics of a photonic structure is commonly described in terms of its apparent geometric dimensionality. On the other hand, with the concept of synthetic dimension, it is in fa…
Record nighttime electric power generation at a density of 350 mW/m via radiative cooling
Sid Assawaworrarit, Ming Zhou, Lingling Fan +1
The coldness of the universe is a thermodynamic resource that has largely remained untapped for renewable energy generation. Recently, a growing interest in this area has led to a…
Exact solution to the steady-state dynamics of a periodically-modulated resonator
Momchil Minkov, Yu Shi, Shanhui Fan
We provide an analytic solution to the coupled-mode equations describing the steady-state of a single periodically-modulated optical resonator driven by a monochromatic input. The…
Strongly-correlated multi-particle transport in one-dimension through a quantum impurity: an outline of exact and complete solutions
Jung-Tsung Shen, Shanhui Fan
We consider the transport properties of multiple-particle quantum states in a class of one-dimensional systems with a single quantum impurity. In these systems, the local interacti…
Enhanced High-Harmonic Generation from an All-Dielectric Metasurface
Hanzhe Liu, Cheng Guo, Giulio Vampa +7
The recent observation of high-harmonic generation from solids creates a new possibility for engineering fundamental strong-field processes by patterning the solid target with subw…
Eigenvalue dynamics in the presence of non-uniform gain and loss
Alexander Cerjan, Shanhui Fan
Loss-induced transmission in waveguides, and reversed pump dependence in lasers, are two prominent examples of counter-intuitive effects in non-Hermitian systems with patterned gai…
Perturbation Theory for Plasmonic Modulation and Sensing
Aaswath Raman, Shanhui Fan
We develop a general perturbation theory to treat small parameter changes in dispersive plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials. We specifically apply it to dielectric refractiv…
A silicon-based device for dynamic control of thermal emission
Sid Assawaworrarit, Alex Song, Shanhui Fan
Control of thermal emission is important in a number of applications from thermal energy harvesting and management and sensing of gas and chemical to thermal camouflage. Semiconduc…
Integrated Cooling (i-Cool) Textile of Heat Conduction and Sweat Transportation for Personal Perspiration Management
Yucan Peng, Wei Li, Bofei Liu +13
Perspiration evaporation plays an indispensable role in human body heat dissipation. However, conventional textiles show limited perspiration management capability in moderate/prof…
Inverse design of plasma metamaterial devices for optical computing
Jesse A. Rodriguez, Ahmed I. Abdalla, Benjamin Wang +3
We apply inverse design methods to produce two-dimensional plasma metamaterial (PMM) devices. Backpropagated finite difference frequency domain (FDFD) simulations are used to desig…
Laterally confined photonic crystal surface emitting laser based on monolayer tungsten disulfide operating at room temperature
Xiaochen Ge, Momchil Minkov, Shanhui Fan +2
We report a photonic crystal surface emitting laser using monolayer tungsten disulfide as the gain medium. The cavity design utilizes a heterostructure in the photonic crystal latt…
Jaynes-Cummings interaction between low energy free-electrons and cavity photons
Aviv Karnieli, Shanhui Fan
The Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian is at the core of cavity quantum electrodynamics, and is ubiquitous in a variety of quantum technologies. The ability to implement and control the v…
Meron Spin Textures in Momentum Space
Cheng Guo, Meng Xiao, Yu Guo +2
We reveal the meron and antimeron spin textures in momentum space in a photonic crystal slab. These spin textures in momentum space have not been previously noted either in electro…
Tunable Magnetless Optical Isolation with Twisted Weyl Semimetals
Vladislav Chistyakov, Viktar S. Asadchy, Shanhui Fan +2
Weyl semimetals hold great promise in revolutionizing nonreciprocal optical components due to their unique topological properties. By exhibiting nonreciprocal magneto-optical effec…
Simulation of large-area metasurfaces with a distributed transition matrix method
Jinhie Skarda, Rahul Trivedi, Logan Su +5
Inverse design of large-area metasurfaces can potentially exploit the full parameter space that such devices offer and achieve highly efficient multifunctional flat optical element…
Topological nature of edge states for one-dimensional systems without symmetry protection
Janet Zhong, Heming Wang, Alexander N Poddubny +1
We numerically verify and analytically prove a winding number invariant that correctly predicts the number of edge states in one-dimensional, nearest-neighbor (between unit cells),…
Controlling the flow of light using the inhomogeneous effective gauge field that emerges from dynamic modulation
Kejie Fang, Shanhui Fan
We show that the effective gauge field for photons provides a versatile platform for controlling the flow of light. As an example we consider a photonic resonator lattice where the…
Separating partially coherent light
Paul-Alexis Mor, Anne R. Kroo, Carson G. Valdez +9
Recent advances in optical imaging and communication increasingly involve high-dimensional, partially coherent light, creating a growing need for scalable tools to measure and mani…
Absence of unidirectionally propagating surface plasmon-polaritons in nonreciprocal plasmonics
Siddharth Buddhiraju, Yu Shi, Alex Song +5
In the presence of an external magnetic field, the surface plasmon polariton that exists at the metal-dielectric interface is believed to support a unidirectional frequency range n…
Alice string in Non-Hermitian Systems
Xiao-Qi Sun, Charles C. Wojcik, Shanhui Fan +1
Alice string is a topological defect with a very peculiar feature. When a defect with a monopole charge encircles an Alice string, the monopole charge changes sign. In this work, w…
Gate-tunable near-field heat transfer
Georgia T. Papadakis, Bo Zhao, Siddharth Buddhiraju +1
Active control over the flow of heat in the near-field holds promise for nanoscale thermal management, with applications in refrigeration, thermophotovoltaics, and thermal circuitr…
Winding number criterion for the origin to belong to the numerical range of a matrix on a loop of matrices
Cheng Guo, Shanhui Fan
Let be continuous with , thus the winding number of is well-defined. If the winding number is not divisible by , then the origi…
Metasurface-Based Realization of Photonic Time Crystals
Xuchen Wang, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa, Viktar S. Asadchy +3
Photonic time crystals are artificial materials whose electromagnetic properties are uniform in space but periodically vary in time. The synthesis of such materials and experimenta…
Fundamental Limit of Nanophotonic Light-trapping in Solar Cells
Zongfu Yu, Aaswath Raman, Shanhui Fan
Establishing the fundamental limit of nanophotonic light-trapping schemes is of paramount importance and is becoming increasingly urgent for current solar cell research. The standa…
Non-Abelian lattice gauge fields in the photonic synthetic frequency dimension
Dali Cheng, Kai Wang, Charles Roques-Carmes +4
Non-Abelian gauge fields provide a conceptual framework for the description of particles having spins. The theoretical importance of non-Abelian gauge fields motivates their experi…
Direct thermal infrared vision via nanophotonic detector design
Chinmay Khandekar, Weiliang Jin, Shanhui Fan
Detection of infrared (IR) photons in a room-temperature IR camera is carried out by a two-dimensional array of microbolometer pixels which exhibit temperature-sensitive resistivit…
Photonic Chern insulators from two-dimensional atomic lattices interacting with a single surface plasmon polariton
Rituraj, Meir Orenstein, Shanhui Fan
We study the polaritonic bandstructure of two-dimensional atomic lattices coupled to a single excitation of a surface plasmon polariton mode. We show the possibility of realizing t…
Design of a multi-channel photonic crystal dielectric laser accelerator
Zhexin Zhao, Dylan S. Black, R. Joel England +5
To be useful for most scientific and medical applications, compact particle accelerators will require much higher average current than enabled by current architectures. For this pu…
Tuning Coherent Radiative Thermal Conductance in Multilayer Photonic Crystals
Wah Tung Lau, Jung-Tsung Shen, Georgios Veronis +2
We consider coherent radiative thermal conductance of a multilayer photonic crystal. The crystal consists of alternating layers of lossless dielectric slabs and vacuum, where heat…
Parallel fault-tolerant programming of an arbitrary feedforward photonic network
Sunil Pai, Ian A. D. Williamson, Tyler W. Hughes +4
Reconfigurable photonic mesh networks of tunable beamsplitter nodes can linearly transform -dimensional vectors representing input modal amplitudes of light for applications suc…
Overcoming the absorption limit in high-harmonic generation from crystals
Hanzhe Liu, Giulio Vampa, Jingyuan Linda Zhang +6
Since the new millennium coherent extreme ultra-violet and soft x-ray radiation has revolutionized the understanding of dynamical physical, chemical and biological systems at the e…
Photonic de Haas-van Alphen effect
Kejie Fang, Shanhui Fan
Based on the recently proposed concept of effective gauge potential and magnetic field for photons, we numerically demonstrate a photonic de Haas-van Alphen effect. We show that in…
Creating high-dimensional topological physics using a single ring resonator
Dali Cheng, Heming Wang, Charles Roques-Carmes +2
In spaces of three or more dimensions, there exists topological physics of significant richness that has no lower-dimensional counterparts. To experimentally explore high-dimension…
Manipulating coherence of near-field thermal radiation in time-modulated systems
Renwen Yu, Shanhui Fan
We show that the spatial coherence of thermal radiation can be manipulated in time-modulated photonic systems supporting surface polaritons. We develop a fluctuational electrodynam…
Synthetic space with arbitrary dimensions in a few rings undergoing dynamic modulation
Luqi Yuan, Meng Xiao, Qian Lin +1
We show that a single ring resonator undergoing dynamic modulation can be used to create a synthetic space with an arbitrary dimension. In such a system the phases of the modulatio…
Near-field heat transfer between graphene/hBN multilayers
Bo Zhao, Brahim Guizal, Zhuomin M. Zhang +2
We study the radiative heat transfer between multilayer structures made by a periodic repetition of a graphene sheet and a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) slab. Surface plasmons in a…
Analytic and geometric properties of scattering from periodically modulated quantum-optical systems
Rahul Trivedi, Alex White, Shanhui Fan +1
We study the scattering of photons from periodically modulated quantum-optical systems. For excitation-number conserving quantum optical systems, we connect the analytic structure…
Quantum Nanophotonics with Energetic Particles:X-rays and Free Electrons
Xihang Shi, Wen Wei Lee, Aviv Karnieli +7
Rapid progress in precision nanofabrication and atomic design over the past 50 years has ushered in a succession of transformative eras for molding the generation and flow of light…
A Single Gyrotropic Particle as a Heat Engine
Yu Guo, Shanhui Fan
We demonstrate that the system composed of a gyrotropic particle out of thermal equilibrium with vacuum can be regarded as a heat engine. Such a particle, initially at rest, will e…
Realization of the Tellegen Effect in Resonant Optical Metasurfaces
Shadi Safaei Jazi, Ihar Faniayeu, Rafael Cichelero +5
The nonreciprocal magnetoelectric effect in Tellegen materials enables exotic phenomena such as axion-modified electrodynamics and fosters the development of magnet-free nonrecipro…