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physics.optics2026★ 3 cited

Electric-Field Mapping of Optically Perturbed CdTe Radiation Detectors

Adriano Cola, Lorenzo Dominici, Antonio Valletta

In radiation detectors, the spatial distribution of the electric field plays a fundamental role in their operation. Access to this field distribution is of strategic importance, es…

physics.optics2024

Geometric control of hyperbolic exciton-polariton condensate dimers

Ioannis Georgakilas, Antonio Gianfrate, Dimitrios Trypogeorgos +7

Coupled many-body quantum systems exhibit rich emergent physics with diverse stationary and dynamical behaviors. By engineering platforms with tunable and distinct coupling mechani…

physics.optics2023★ 54 cited

New horizons in near-zero refractive index photonics and hyperbolic metamaterials

Michaël Lobet, Nathaniel Kinsey, Iñigo Liberal +7

The engineering of the spatial and temporal properties of both the electric permittivity and the refractive index of materials is at the core of photonics. When vanishing to zero,…

physics.optics2023★ 20 cited

Unlocking optical coupling tunability in epsilon-near-zero metamaterials through liquid crystal nanocavities

Giuseppe Emanuele Lio, Antonio Ferraro, Bruno Zappone +6

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials represent a powerful toolkit for selectively transmitting and localizing light through cavity resonances, enabling the study of mesoscopic phe…

physics.optics2023★ 36 cited

Reconfigurable quantum fluid molecules of bound states in the continuum

Antonio Gianfrate, Helgi Sigurdsson, Vincenzo Ardizzone +10

Topological bound states in the continuum are confined wave-mechanical objects that offer advantageous ways to enhance light-matter interactions in compact photonic devices. In par…

physics.optics2022★ 28 cited

Electrical switching of a chiral lasing from polariton condensate in a Rashba-Dresselhaus regime

K. Łempicka-Mirek, M. Król, L. De Marco +13

Efficient optical classical and quantum information processing imposes on light novel requirements: chirality with low threshold non-linearities. In this work we demonstrate a chir…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Gain-compensated cavities for the dynamic control of light-matter interactions

Christos Tserkezis, Christian Wolff, Fedor A. Shuklin +4

We propose an efficient approach for actively controlling the Rabi oscillations in emitter-cavity hybrids based on the presence of an element with optical gain. Inspired by recent…

physics.optics2022★ 127 cited

Strongly enhanced light-matter coupling of a monolayer WS2 from a bound state in the continuum

E. Maggiolini, L. Polimeno, F. Todisco +11

Optical bound states in the continuum (BIC) allow to totally prevent a photonic mode from radiating into free space along a given spatial direction. Polariton excitations derived f…

physics.optics2022★ 60 cited

Fano Resonant Optical coatings platform for Full Gamut and High Purity Structural Colors

Mohamed ElKabbash, Nathaniel Hoffman, Andrew R Lininger +5

Structural coloring is a photostable and environmentally friendly coloring approach that harnesses optical interference and nanophotonic resonances to obtain colors with a range of…

physics.optics2022★ 18 cited

Rydberg polaritons in ReS2 crystals

A. Coriolano, L. Polimeno, M. Pugliese +14

Rhenium disulfide (ReS2) belongs to group-VII transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDs) with attractive properties such as exceptionally high refractive index and significant oscillat…

physics.optics2022★ 13 cited

Time Translation Symmetry Breaking in an Isolated Spin-Orbit-Coupled Fluid of Light

Giovanni I. Martone, Nicolas Cherroret

We study the interplay between intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and nonlinear photon-photon interactions in a nonparaxial, elliptically polarized fluid of light propagating in a bulk…

physics.optics2022★ 30 cited

All-Optical tunability of metalenses infiltrated with liquid crystals

Giovanna Palermo, Andrew Lininger, Alexa Guglielmelli +8

Metasurfaces have been extensively engineered to produce a wide range of optical phenomena, allowing unprecedented control over the propagation of light. However, they are generall…

physics.optics2022★ 21 cited

Fabrication of Nanostructured GaAs/AlGaAs Waveguide for Low-Density Polariton Condensation from a Bound State in the Continuum

F. Riminucci, V. Ardizzone, L. Francaviglia +13

Exciton-polaritons are hybrid light-matter states that arise from strong coupling between an exciton resonance and a photonic cavity mode. As bosonic excitations, they can undergo…

physics.optics2022★ 73 cited

Electrically tunable Berry curvature and strong light-matter coupling in birefringent perovskite microcavities at room temperature

K. Łempicka-Mirek, M. Król, H. Sigurdsson +14

The field of spinoptronics is underpinned by good control over photonic spin-orbit coupling in devices that possess strong optical nonlinearities. Such devices might hold the key t…

physics.optics2022★ 3 cited

Optical Writing and Electro-Optic Imaging of Reversible Space Charges in Semi-Insulating CdTe Diodes

Adriano Cola, Lorenzo Dominici, Antonio Valletta

Deep levels control the space charge in electrically compensated semi-insulating materials. They limit the performance of radiation detectors but their interaction with free carrie…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Coupled quantum vortex kinematics and Berry curvature in real space

Lorenzo Dominici, Amir Rahmani, David Colas +6

The Berry curvature provides a powerful tool to unify several branches of science through their geometrical aspect: topology, energy bands, spin and vector fields. While quantum de…

physics.optics2021★ 65 cited

Realization of room temperature polaritonic vortex in momentum space with hybrid Perovskite metasurface

Nguyen Ha My Dang, Simone Zanotti, Céline Chevalier +9

Exciton-polaritons are mixed light-matter excitations that result from the strong coupling regime between an active excitonic material and photonic resonances. Harnessing these hyb…

physics.optics2021★ 28 cited

Energy-efficient neural network inference with microcavity exciton-polaritons

M. Matuszewski, A. Opala, R. Mirek +8

We propose all-optical neural networks characterized by very high energy efficiency and performance density of inference. We argue that the use of microcavity exciton-polaritons al…

physics.optics2021★ 8 cited

Shaping the topology of light with a moving Rabi-oscillating vortex

Lorenzo Dominici, Nina Voronova, David Colas +8

Quantum vortices are the analogue of classical vortices in optics, Bose-Einstein condensates, superfluids and superconductors, where they provide the elementary mode of rotation an…

physics.optics2021★ 23 cited

Tailoring of Plasmonic Functionalized Metastructures to Enhance Local Heating Release

Antonio Ferraro, Giuseppe Emanuele Lio, Abdelhamid Hmina +3

Plasmonic nanoheaters are reported that produce a significant local heating when excited by a 532 nm wavelength focussed laser beam. A significant temperature increase derives from…

physics.optics2021★ 206 cited

Polariton Bose-Einstein condensate from a Bound State in the Continuum

V. Ardizzone, F. Riminucci, S. Zanotti +13

Optical bound states in the continuum (BIC) are peculiar topological states that, when realized in a planar photonic crystal lattice, are symmetry-protected from radiating in the f…

physics.optics2021★ 42 cited

Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Hyperbolic Metamaterial Nanoparticles

Joel Kuttruff, Alessio Gabbani, Gaia Petrucci +10

The optical properties of some nanomaterials can be controlled by an external magnetic field, providing active functionalities for a wide range of applications, from single-molecul…

physics.optics2021★ 50 cited

Femtomolar Biodetection by a Compact Core-Shell 3D Chiral Metamaterial

Mariachiara Manoccio, Marco Esposito, Elisabetta Primiceri +8

Highly sensitive and selective label free devices for real-time identification of specific biomarkers are expected to significantly impact the biosensing field. The ability of plas…

physics.optics2020★ 10 cited

Spatial coherence of light inside three dimensional media

Marco Leonetti, Lorenzo Pattelli, Simone De Panfilis +2

Speckle is maybe the most fundamental interference effect of light in disordered media, giving rise to fascinating physical phenomena and enabling applications in imaging, spectros…