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physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Accessible, All-Polymer Metasurfaces: Low Effort, High Quality Factor

Michael Hirler, Alexander A. Antonov, Enrico Baù +4

Optical metasurfaces supporting resonances with high quality factors offer an outstanding platform for applications such as non-linear optics, light guiding, lasing, sensing, light…

physics.optics2025★ 10 cited

Ultrafast all-optical switching in nonlinear 3R-MoS van der Waals metasurfaces

Levin Seidt, Thomas Weber, Albert A. Seredin +7

Second-order nonlinear optical processes are fundamental to photonics, spectroscopy, and information technologies, with material platforms playing a pivotal role in advancing these…

physics.optics2024★ 13 cited

Interface second harmonic generation enhancement in hetero-bilayer van der Waals nanoantennas

Andrea Tognazzi, Paolo Franceschini, Jonas Biechteler +5

Layered van der Waals (vdW) materials have emerged as a promising platform for nanophotonics due to large refractive indexes and giant optical anisotropy. Unlike conventional diele…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Chiral Nonlinear Polaritonics with van der Waals Metasurfaces

Connor Heimig, Alexander A. Antonov, Dmytro Gryb +10

In the strong-coupling regime, the interaction between light and matter reaches a hybridization state where the photonic and material components are inseparably linked. Using tailo…

physics.optics2024★ 9 cited

On-chip twisted hollow-core light cages: enhancing planar photonics with 3D nanoprinting

Johannes Bürger, Jisoo Kim, Thomas Weiss +2

Twisted optical fibers are a promising platform for manipulating circularly polarized light and orbital angular momentum beams for applications such as nonlinear frequency conversi…

physics.optics2024★ 25 cited

Substrate-induced maximum optical chirality of planar dielectric structures

Maxim V. Gorkunov, Alexander A. Antonov, Alena V. Mamonova +2

Resonant dielectric planar structures can interact selectively with light of particular helicity thus providing an attractive platform for chiral flat optics. The absence of mirror…

physics.optics2024★ 25 cited

Van der Waals heterostructure metasurfaces: atomic-layer assembly of ultrathin optical cavities

Luca Sortino, Jonas Biechteler, Lucas Lafeta +5

Photonics has been revolutionized by breakthroughs in optical metasurfaces and layered two-dimensional materials. Yet, integrating these two fields in a singular system has remaine…

physics.optics2024

Coherent Acoustic Phonons in Plasmonic Nanoparticles: Elastic Properties and Dissipation at Low Temperatures

Hilario D. Boggiano, Thomas Possmayer, Luis Morguet +7

We studied the frequency and quality factor of mechanical plasmonic nanoresonators as a function of temperature, ranging from ambient to 4 K. Our investigation focused on individua…

physics.optics2024★ 10 cited

Focusing Surface Acoustic Waves with a Plasmonic Hypersonic Lens

Hilario D. Boggiano, Lin Nan, Gustavo Grinblat +3

Plasmonic nanoantennas have proven to be efficient transducers of electromagnetic to mechanical energy and vice versa. The sudden thermal expansion of these structures after an ult…

physics.optics2024★ 27 cited

Si Metasurface Supporting Multiple Quasi-BICs for Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing

Gianni Q. Moretti, Thomas Weber, Thomas Possmayer +6

Dielectric metasurfaces supporting quasi-bound states in the continuum (qBICs) enable high field enhancement with narrow-linewidth resonances in the visible and near-infrared range…

physics.optics2023★ 7 cited

Impact of coordinate frames on mode formation in twisted waveguides

Johannes Bürger, Adrià Canós Valero, Thomas Weiss +2

Off-axis twisted waveguides possess unique optical properties such as circular and orbital angular momentum (OAM) birefringence, setting them apart from their straight counterparts…

physics.optics2023★ 36 cited

Optically addressable spin defects coupled to bound states in the continuum metasurfaces

Luca Sortino, Angus Gale, Lucca Kühner +9

Van der Waals (vdW) materials, including hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), are layered crystalline solids with appealing properties for investigating light-matter interactions at the…

physics.optics2023★ 89 cited

Metafiber transforming arbitrarily structured light

Chenhao Li, Torsten Wieduwilt, Fedja J. Wendisch +5

Structured light has proven useful for numerous photonic applications. However, the current use of structured light in optical fiber science and technology is severely limited by m…

physics.optics2022★ 78 cited

Permittivity-asymmetric quasi-bound states in the continuum

Rodrigo Berté, Thomas Weber, Leonardo de S. Menezes +7

Broken symmetries lie at the heart of nontrivial physical phenomena. Breaking the in-plane geometrical symmetry of optical systems allows to access a set of electromagnetic states…

physics.optics2022★ 209 cited

Strong light-matter interaction with self-hybridized bound states in the continuum in monolithic van der Waals metasurfaces

Thomas Weber, Lucca Kühner, Luca Sortino +6

Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) are a standout nanophotonic platform for strong light-matter coupling with transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), but have so far m…

physics.optics2022★ 88 cited

Van der Waals Materials for Applications in Nanophotonics

Panaiot G. Zotev, Yue Wang, Daniel Andres-Penares +12

Numerous optical phenomena and applications have been enabled by nanophotonic structures. Their current fabrication from high refractive index dielectrics, such as silicon or galli…

physics.optics2022★ 217 cited

Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies

Romain Tirole, Stefano Vezzoli, Emanuele Galiffi +6

The wave nature of light is revealed by diffraction from physical structures. We report a time-domain version of the classic Young's double-slit experiment: a beam of light twice g…

physics.optics2022★ 4 cited

Radial bound states in the continuum for polarization-invariant nanophotonics

Lucca Kühner, Luca Sortino, Rodrigo Berté +5

All-dielectric nanophotonics underpinned by the physics of bound states in the continuum (BICs) have demonstrated breakthrough applications in nanoscale light manipulation, frequen…

physics.optics2022★ 32 cited

Introducing a Symmetry-Breaking Coupler into a Dielectric Metasurface Enables Robust High-Q Quasibound States in the Continuum and Efficient Nonlinear Frequency Conversion

Gianni Q. Moretti, Andreas Tittl, Emiliano Cortés +3

Dielectric metasurfaces supporting quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) exhibit very high quality factor resonances and electric field confinement. However, accessing t…

physics.optics2022★ 8 cited

Intensity -correlations in random fiber lasers: A random matrix theory approach

Ernesto P. Raposo, Iván R. R. Gonzáles, Edwin D. Coronel +5

We propose a new approach based on random matrix theory to calculate the temporal second-order intensity correlation function of the radiation emitted by random lasers…

physics.optics2022★ 224 cited

An achromatic metafiber for focusing and imaging across the entire telecommunication range

Haoran Ren, Jaehyuck Jang, Chenhao Li +6

Dispersion engineering is essential to the performance of most modern optical systems including fiber-optic devices. Even though the chromatic dispersion of a meter-scale single-mo…

physics.optics2021★ 24 cited

Near unity Raman -factor of surface enhanced Raman scattering in a waveguide

Ming Fu, Mónica P. dS. P. Mota, Xiaofei Xiao +6

The Raman scattering of light by molecular vibrations offers a powerful technique to 'fingerprint' molecules via their internal bonds and symmetries. Since Raman scattering is weak…

physics.optics2021★ 380 cited

Challenges in Plasmonic Catalysis

Emiliano Cortés, Lucas V. Besteiro, Alessandro Alabastri +4

The use of nanoplasmonics to control light and heat close to the thermodynamic limit enables exciting opportunities in the field of plasmonic catalysis. The decay of plasmonic exci…

physics.optics2021★ 25 cited

Determination of Nanoscale Mechanical Properties of Polymers via Plasmonic Nanoantennas

Hilario D. Boggiano, Rodrigo Berté, Alberto F. Scarpettini +3

Nanotechnology and the consequent emergence of miniaturized devices are driving the need to improve our understanding of the mechanical properties of a myriad of materials. Here we…