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physics.optics2026

Time-Resolved dynamics of semiconductor nanolaser via four-wave mixing gating

Federico Monti, Guilhem Madiot, Giuseppe Modica +5

We experimentally demonstrate the direct time-domain characterization of photonic-crystal nanolasers at telecom wavelengths using a nonlinear optical gating technique based on four…

physics.optics2026

Tensor-driven geometric phase in nonlinear AlGaAs metasurfaces

Giorgio Guercio, Andrea Gerini, Kristina Frizyuk +5

Dielectric metasurfaces provide a unique platform for efficient harmonic generation and optical wavefront manipulation at the nanoscale. While several approaches are available for…

physics.optics2025

High-resolution broadband characterization of resonance dispersion in an optical microresonator

Romain Dalidet, Adrien Bensemhoun, Gregory Sauder +12

Accurate knowledge of the uneven free spectral range of an optical microresonator, which provides direct insight into group velocity dispersion, is essential for understanding and…

physics.optics2025

Twisted light from topological chiral exceptional points in a nanolaser array

Kaiwen Ji, Melissa Hedir, Qi Zhong +3

We propose and experimentally demonstrate an orbital angular momentum (OAM) nanolaser array arranged in a ring geometry on an InP-based photonic crystal membrane. The device realiz…

physics.optics2025

All-optical nonlinear phase modulation in open semiconductor microcavities

Fedor A. Benimetskiy, Paul M. Walker, Anthony Ellul +8

We report a significant advancement in ultra low power light-by-light phase modulation using open semiconductor microcavities in the strong light-matter coupling regime. We achieve…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Intersubband polariton -- LO phonon interaction in mid-infrared non-dispersive cavities: experimental demonstration of spontaneous scattering and perspectives towards polariton lasing

Paul Goulain, Mathieu Jeannin, Stefano Pirotta +5

We report experimental evidence of the interaction between intersubband polaritons and longitudinal optical phonons in non-dispersive mid-infrared cavities, under resonant optical…

physics.optics2025

Strongly resonant polarization dynamics of pulse trains in a spin-flip model for an excitable microlaser with delayed self-feedback

Stefan Ruschel, Sylvain Barbay, Neil G. R. Broderick +1

Motivated by recent experimental observations concerning the polarization dynamics in an excitable microlaser with saturable absorber coupled to an external feedback mirror reporte…

physics.optics2025

Mid-infrared integrated resonators on a III-V platform with Q-factors beyond half a million

Luca Lucia, Gia Long Ngo, Mathilde Urbain +7

We demonstrate mid-IR integrated race-track resonators on a III-V semiconductor platform,InGaAs core epitaxially grown on InP. We have performed a complete characterization of the…

physics.optics2025

Single-layer silicon metalens for broadband achromatic focusing and wide field of view

Jian Cao, Sarra Salhi, Jonathan Peltier +7

Achieving simultaneous broadband achromatic focusing and a wide field of view remains a significant challenge for metalenses. In this work, we begin with a quadratic phase profile,…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Black hole optical analogue: photon sphere microlasers

Chenni Xu, Aswathy Sundaresan, Nazire-Begüm Kazkal +7

The bell-like ringdown of the gravitational field in the last stage of the merging of massive black holes is now routinely detected on earth by the last generation of gravitational…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

On-chip pulse generation at 8 μm wavelength

Annabelle Bricout, Mathieu Bertrand, Philipp Täschler +15

The mid-infrared spectral region holds growing importance for applications such as gas sensing and spectroscopy. Although compact ultrashort pulse laser sources are essential to en…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Directional transport and nonlinear localization of light in a one-dimensional driven-dissipative photonic lattice

Tony Mathew Blessan, Bastián Real, Camille Druelle +11

Photonic lattices facilitate band structure engineering, supporting both localized and extended modes through their geometric design. However, greater control over these modes can…

physics.optics2025

Germanium-Based Mid-Infrared Photonics

Delphine Marris-Morini, Goran Z. Mashanovich, Milos Nedeljkovic +4

The mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral range is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum in which most of the molecules have vibrational and rotational resonances. Ge-based photonic inte…

physics.optics2025★ 6 cited

Plasmon-interband hybridization and anomalous production of hot electrons in aluminum nanoantennas

Jérôme Martin, Oscar Avalos-Ovando, Thomas Simon +9

Strong coupling typically occurs between two separate objects or between an object and its environment (such as an atom and a cavity). However, it can also occur between two differ…

physics.optics2025

Three-dimensional Meta-atoms for High Confinement of Mid-IR Radiation

Francesco Pisani, Usama Iqbal, Laure Tailpied +3

The ability to confine photons into structures with highly sub-wavelength volumes is extremely interesting for many applications such as sensing, nonlinear optics, and strong light…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

Exploring non-Euclidean photonics: Pseudosphere microlaser

H. Girin, S. Bittner, X. Checoury +8

Classical and wave properties of microlasers with the shape of a truncated pseudosphere are investigated through experiments and numerical simulations. These pseudosphere microlase…

physics.optics2024

Regenerative vectorial breathers in a delay-coupled neuromorphic microlaser with integrated saturable absorber

Stefan Ruschel, Venkata A. Pammi, Rémy Braive +5

We report on the polarization dynamics of regenerative light pulses in a micropillar laser with integrated saturable absorber coupled to an external feedback mirror. The delayed se…

physics.optics2024★ 10 cited

Broadband mode exchanger based on subwavelength Y-junctions

Raquel Fernández de Cabo, Alejandro Sánchez-Sánchez, Yijun Yang +4

Multimode silicon photonics, leveraging mode-division multiplexing technologies, offers significant potential to increase capacity of large-scale multiprocessing systems for on-chi…

physics.optics2024

Upper bounds on broadband absorption

Stéphane Collin, Maxime Giteau

We address the question of the optimal broadband absorption of waves in an open, dissipative system. We develop a general framework for absorption induced by multiple overlapping r…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

End-to-end simulations of photonic phase correctors for adaptive optics systems

Dhwanil Patel, Momen Diab, Ross Cheriton +8

Optical beams and starlight distorted by atmospheric turbulence can be corrected with adaptive optics systems to enable efficient coupling into single-mode fibers. Deformable mirro…

physics.optics2024★ 5 cited

Extending the spectral operation of multimode and polarization-independent power splitters through subwavelength nanotechnology

Raquel Fernández de Cabo, David González-Andrade, Pavel Cheben +1

Power splitters play a crucial role in virtually all photonic circuits, enabling precise control of on-chip signal distribution. However, state-of-the-art solutions typically prese…

physics.optics2024★ 7 cited

Low-loss directional coupler for the C, L and U bands based on subwavelength gratings

Jaime Vilas, Raquel Fernández De Cabo, Irene Olivares +3

Directional couplers are ubiquitous components for power distribution in silicon photonics integrated circuits. Despite significant advances in their performance, architectures pro…

physics.optics2024

Stimulated Forward Brillouin Scattering in Subwavelength Silicon Membranes

Paula Nuño Ruano, Jianhao Zhang, David González-Andrade +6

Brillouin scattering enables efficient and coherent conversion between optical photons and gigahertz-frequency phonons. Integrated circuits that harness this nonlinear interaction…

physics.optics2023★ 4 cited

Elliptical micropillars for efficient generation and detection of coherent acoustic phonons

Chushuang Xiang, Anne Rodriguez, Edson Rafael Cardozo de Oliveira +5

Coherent acoustic phonon generation and detection assisted by optical resonances are at the core of efficient optophononic transduction processes. However, when dealing with a sing…