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most citedDetection of Zak phases and topological invariants in a chiral quantum walk of twisted photons

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physics.optics2025★ 10 cited

Electrically tunable liquid-crystal metasurfaces with patterned birefringence and dichroism

Paola Savarese, Sarvesh Bansal, Maria Gorizia Ammendola +7

Light propagation through artificially patterned anisotropic materials, such as dielectric metasurfaces, enables precise control of the spatio-vectorial properties of optical field…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

Emission dynamics and spectrum of a nanoshell-based plasmonic nanolaser spaser

Ashod Aradian, Andres Cathey, Karen Caicedo +4

We study theoretically the emission and lasing properties of a single nanoshell spaser nanoparticle, or plasmonic nanolaser, made of an active core (gain material) and a plasmonic…

physics.optics2017★ 162 cited

Measuring the complex orbital angular momentum spectrum and spatial mode decomposition of structured light beams

Alessio D'Errico, Raffaele D'Amelio, Bruno Piccirillo +2

Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum are key resources in modern photonics. In many applications, the ability of measuring the complex spectrum of structured light beams i…

physics.optics2017★ 18 cited

Flat polarization-controlled cylindrical lens based on the Pancharatnam-Berry geometric phase

Bruno Piccirillo, Michela Florinda Picardi, Lorenzo Marrucci +1

The working principle of ordinary refractive lenses can be explained in terms of the space-variant optical phase retardations they introduce, which reshape the optical wavefront cu…

physics.optics2016★ 39 cited

Topological features of vector vortex beams perturbed with uniformly polarized light

Alessio D'Errico, Maria Maffei, Bruno Piccirillo +3

Optical singularities manifesting at the center of vector vortex beams are unstable, since their topological charge is higher than the lowest value permitted by Maxwell's equations…

physics.optics2016★ 23 cited

Interplay between diffraction and the Pancharatnam-Berry phase in inhomogeneously twisted anisotropic media

Chandroth Pannian Jisha, Alessandro Alberucci, Lorenzo Marrucci +1

We discuss the propagation of an electromagnetic field in an inhomogeneously anisotropic material where the optic axis is rotated in the transverse plane but is invariant along the…

physics.optics2016★ 27 cited

Electromagnetic confinement via spin-orbit interaction in anisotropic dielectrics

Alessandro Alberucci, Chandroth Pannian Jisha, Lorenzo Marrucci +1

We investigate electromagnetic propagation in uniaxial dielectrics with a transversely varying orientation of the optic axis, the latter staying orthogonal everywhere to the propag…

physics.optics2015★ 136 cited

Guiding light via geometric phases

Sergei Slussarenko, Alessandro Alberucci, Chandroth P. Jisha +4

Known methods for transverse confinement and guidance of light can be grouped into a few basic mechanisms, the most common being metallic reflection, total internal reflection and…

physics.optics2013★ 48 cited

Surface sensitivity of Rayleigh anomalies in metallic nanogratings

Silvio Savoia, Armando Ricciardi, Alessio Crescitelli +4

Sensing schemes based on Rayleigh anomalies (RAs) in metal nanogratings exhibit an impressive bulk refractive-index sensitivity determined solely by the grating period. However, th…