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physics.optics2025

Nonlinear Anisotropy in Phase-Tuned Wide-Gap Halides

L. Landivar Scott, L. M. Vogl, C. Klenke +2

Silver iodide (AgI) thin films offer a compelling platform for studying nonlinear optical phenomena due to their intrinsic noncentrosymmetric lattice and direct band gap. Here, we…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Sub-millisecond electric field sensing with an individual rare-earth doped ferroelectric nanocrystal

Athulya Muraleedharan, Jingye Zou, Maxime Vallet +5

Understanding the dynamics of electrical signals within neuronal assemblies is crucial to unraveling complex brain function. Despite recent advances in employing optically active n…

physics.optics2023★ 28 cited

Loss-difference-induced localization in a non-Hermitian honeycomb photonic lattice

Yuan Feng, Zhenzhi Liu, Fu Liu +6

Non-Hermitian systems with complex-valued energy spectra provide an extraordinary platform for manipulating unconventional dynamics of light. Here, we demonstrate the localization…

physics.optics2022★ 9 cited

A passive bias-free ultrabroadband optical isolator based on unidirectional self-induced transparency

Haodong Wu, Jiangshan Tang, Mingyuan Chen +4

Achieving a broadband nonreciprocal device without gain and any external bias is very challenging and highly desirable for modern photonic technologies and quantum networks. Here,…

physics.optics2021★ 36 cited

Angular-dependent Klein tunneling in photonic graphene

Zhaoyang Zhang, Yuan Feng, Feng Li +7

The Klein paradox consists in the perfect tunneling of relativistic particles through high potential barriers. As a curious feature of particle physics, it is responsible for the e…

physics.optics2021★ 12 cited

Ultralow-power all-optical switching via a chiral Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Y. P. Ruan, H. D. Wu, S. J. Ge +8

All-optical switching increasingly plays an important role in optical information processing. However, simultaneous achievement of ultralow power consumption, broad bandwidth and h…

physics.optics2020★ 161 cited

Brillouin-Kerr soliton frequency combs in an optical microresonator

Yan Bai, Menghua Zhang, Qi Shi +4

By generating a Brillouin laser in an optical microresonator, we realize a soliton Kerr microcomb through exciting the Kerr frequency comb using the generated Brillouin laser in th…

physics.optics2019★ 139 cited

Observation of Edge Solitons in Photonic Graphene

Zhaoyang Zhang, Rong Wang, Yiqi Zhang +8

Edge states emerge in diverse areas of science, offering new opportunities for the development of novel electronic or optoelectronic devices, sound and light propagation controls i…

physics.optics2019★ 74 cited

Transmission Nonreciprocity in a Mutually Coupled Circulating Structure

Bing He, Liu Yang, Xiaoshun Jiang +1

Breaking Lorentz reciprocity was believed to be a prerequisite for nonreciprocal transmissions of light fields, so the possibility of nonreciprocity by linear optical systems was m…

physics.optics2018★ 70 cited

Generating controllable Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes through intracavity spin-orbital angular momentum conversion of light

Dunzhao Wei, Yue Cheng, Rui Ni +4

The rapid developments in orbital-angular-momentum-carrying Laguerre-Gaussian (LG0 l) modes in recent years have facilitated progresses in optical communication, micromanipulation…

physics.optics2018★ 71 cited

Parity-time symmetry in optical microcavity systems

Jianming Wen, Xiaoshun Jiang, Liang Jiang +1

Canonical quantum mechanics postulates Hermitian Hamiltonians to ensure real eigenvalues. Counterintuitively, a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, satisfying combined parity-time (PT) symm…

physics.optics2018★ 75 cited

Particle-like behavior of topological defects in linear wave packets in photonic graphene

Zhaoyang Zhang, Feng Li, Guillaume Malpuech +7

Topological defects, such as quantum vortices, determine the properties of quantum fluids. The study of their properties has been at the center of activity in solid state and BEC c…

physics.optics2017★ 60 cited

Parity-time-symmetric optical lattice with alternating gain and loss atomic configurations

Zhaoyang Zhang, Liu Yang, Jingliang Feng +4

Since the spatially extended periodic parity-time (PT) symmetric potential can possess certain unique properties compared to a single PT cell (with only a pair of coupled gain-loss…

physics.optics2017★ 43 cited

Tunable subnanometer gap plasmonic metasurfaces

Dennis Doyle, Nicholas Charipar, Christos Argyropoulos +6

The index of refraction governs the flow of light through materials. At visible and near infrared wavelengths the real part of the refractive index is limited to less than 3 for na…

physics.optics2017★ 28 cited

Edge states in dynamical superlattices

Yiqi Zhang, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Feng Li +4

We address edge states and rich localization regimes available in the one-dimensional (1D) dynamically modulated superlattices, both theoretically and numerically. In contrast to c…

physics.optics2016★ 65 cited

Greatly enhanced intensity-difference squeezing for narrow-band quantum metrology applications

Da Zhang, Changbiao Li, Zhaoyang Zhang +4

Narrow-band intensity-difference squeezing beams have important applications in quantum metrology and gravitational wave detection. The best way to generate narrow-band intensity-d…

physics.optics2016★ 24 cited

Analysis of a Triple-cavity Photonic Molecule Based on Coupled Mode Theory

Chao Yang, Yong Hu, Xiaoshun Jiang +1

In this paper, we analyze a chain-linked triple-cavity photonic molecule (TCPM) with controllable coupling strengths between the cavities on their spectral properties and field (en…

physics.optics2016★ 62 cited

Unveiling the link between fractional Schrödinger equation and light propagation in honeycomb lattice

Da Zhang, Yiqi Zhang, Zhaoyang Zhang +5

We establish a link between the fractional Schrödinger equation (FSE) and light propagation in the honeycomb lattice (HCL) - the Dirac-Weyl equation (DWE). The fractional Laplacian…

physics.optics2016★ 48 cited

Transport properties in the photonic super-honeycomb lattice - a hybrid fermionic and bosonic system

Hua Zhong, Yiqi Zhang, Yi Zhu +6

We report on transport properties of the super-honeycomb lattice, the band structure of which possesses a flat band and Dirac cones, according to the tight-binding approximation. T…

physics.optics2016★ 44 cited

Observation of electromagnetically induced Talbot effect in an atomic system

Zhaoyang Zhang, Xing Liu, Dan Zhang +4

We experimentally demonstrate the Talbot effect resulting from the repeated self-reconstruction of a spatially intensity-modulated probe field under the Fresnel near-field regime.…

physics.optics2016★ 131 cited

Demonstration of a Chip-based Nonlinear Optical Isolator

Shiyue Hua, Jianming Wen, Xiaoshun Jiang +3

Despite fundamentally challenging in integrated (nano)photonics, achieving chip-based light nonreciprocity becomes increasingly urgent in signal processing and optical communicatio…

physics.optics2016★ 341 cited

Observation of Parity-Time Symmetry in Optically Induced Atomic Lattices

Zhaoyang Zhang, Yiqi Zhang, Jiteng Sheng +6

We experimentally demonstrate PT-symmetric optical lattices with periodical gain and loss profiles in a coherently-prepared four-level N-type atomic system. By appropriately tuning…

physics.optics2016★ 176 cited

symmetry in a fractional Schrödinger equation

Yiqi Zhang, Hua Zhong, Milivoj R. Belić +5

We investigate the fractional Schrödinger equation with a periodic -symmetric potential. In the inverse space, the problem transfers into a first-order nonlocal frequ…

physics.optics2016★ 21 cited

Nonparaxial accelerating Talbot effect

Yiqi Zhang, Hua Zhong, Milivoj R. Belić +5

We demonstrate the fractional Talbot effect of nonpraxial accelerating beams, theoretically and numerically. It is based on the interference of nonparaxial accelerating solutions o…