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physics.optics2026★ 51 cited

730-nm optical parametric conversion from near- to short-wave infrared band

J. M. Chavez Boggio, J. R. Windmiller, M. Knutzen +6

A record 730 nm parametric conversion in silica fiber from the near-infrared to the short-wave infrared band is reported and analyzed. A parametric gain in excess of 30 dB was meas…

physics.optics2026

Demonstration of a High-Q Subwavelength Dielectric Nanocylinder

Dayang Li, Simon Klinck Borregaard, Jesper Mørk +2

The development of subwavelength dielectric cavities is essential for reducing the size of photonic devices and enabling dense optoelectronic integration. However, previouslysubwav…

physics.optics2026

High-yield fabrication of micromirror templates via feedback-controlled laser ablation

Daniel Allepuz-Requena, Jonas Schou Neergard-Nielsen, Alexander Huck +1

We present a high-yield method for fabricating concave micromirror templates in silica using feedback-controlled CO2 laser ablation with precise in situ positioning. Real-time moni…

physics.optics2026★ 1 cited

Broadband parametric amplification in AlGaAs-on-insulator nanowaveguides

Yanjing Zhao, Chanju Kim, Yi Zheng +4

Optical amplification is critical for optical signal transmission. While the emergence of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers has revolutionized optical communications in fiber-based sys…

physics.optics2026★ 1 cited

Topology-optimized distributed 3d anisotropic Raman emission

Ian M. Hammond, Pengning Chao, Henry O. Everitt +4

Topology optimization (TO) of 3D surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates faces challenges in managing field singularities and modeling orientation-averaged anisotropic…

physics.optics2026

Lasing from a Quantum-Dot-Like Buried Heterostructure in an InP Nanobeam Cavity

Valdemar Bille-Lauridsen, Rasmus Jarbøl, Meng Xiong +4

We report lasing from a lithographically defined buried heterostructure with an estimated lateral footprint of (107 nm)^2, embedded in an InP photonic-crystal nanobeam cavity. This…

physics.optics2026

Instantaneous modes in dispersive laser cavities

Kristian Seegert, Yi Yu, Mikkel Heuck +1

We develop a unified instantaneous-mode description for lasers with dispersive cavities, exploiting the separation of timescales between fast cavity fields and slow carrier dynamic…

physics.optics2026

Measured group birefringence and group velocity dispersion of elliptical-core ZBLAN fibres for mid-infrared supercontinuum generation

Shreesha Rao D. S., Christian R. Petersen, Anupamaa Rampur +2

Polarisation-maintaining ZBLAN optical fibres with small elliptical cores are attractive for nonlinear frequency conversion, for example in supercontinuum generation (SCG), and for…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

A deterministic approach for integrating an emitter in a nanocavity with subwavelength light confinement

Valdemar Bille-Lauridsen, Rasmus Ellebæk Christiansen, Yi Yu +1

We introduce a novel light-matter interface that integrates a nanoscale buried heterostructure emitter into a dielectric bowtie cavity, co-localising the optical hotspot and the el…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Octave-spanning, deterministic single soliton generation in 4H-silicon carbide-on-insulator microring resonators

Yi Zheng, Liping Zhou, Chengli Wang +5

The miniaturization of self-referencing frequency comb systems enables emerging applications in metrology and spectroscopy. One major challenge in realizing the chip-scale self-ref…

physics.optics2025

Engineered mode coupling in high-Q microresonators enables deterministic low-repetition-rate soliton microcombs

Yi Zheng, Yang Liu, Haoyang Tan +4

Soliton optical frequency combs have become key enablers for a wide range of applications, including telecommunications, optical atomic clocks, ultrafast distance measurements, dua…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

High Purcell enhancement in all-TMDC nanobeam resonator designs with active monolayers for nanolasers

Felix Binkowski, Aris Koulas-Simos, Fridtjof Betz +9

We propose a nanobeam resonator incorporating an active monolayer, designed to achieve a high Purcell enhancement. The resonator is fully composed of transition-metal-dichalcogenid…

physics.optics2025★ 10 cited

Photonics in Flatland: Challenges and Opportunities for Nanophotonics with 2D Semiconductors

Ali Azimi, Julien Barrier, Angela Barreda +45

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are emerging as a versatile platform for nanophotonics, offering unprecedented tunability in optical properties through exciton resonance engine…

physics.optics2025

Silicon Nitride Microresonator Raman Lasers

Yi Zheng, Haoyang Tan, Andreas Jacobsen +6

Silicon nitride (SiN) has emerged as a promising platform for integrated nonlinear photonics because of its low propagation loss, wide transparency window, and CMOS compatibility.…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Efficient first-principles inverse design of nanolasers

Beñat Martinez de Aguirre Jokisch, Alexander Cerjan, Rasmus Ellebæk Christiansen +3

We develop and demonstrate a first-principles approach, based on the nonlinear Maxwell-Bloch equations and steady-state ab-initio laser theory (SALT), for inverse design of nanostr…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Carrier Transport in Electrically-Driven Photonic Crystal Membrane Lasers

Mathias Marchal, Evangelos Dimopoulos, Kasper Spiegelhauer +5

We model carrier transport in photonic crystal lasers with lateral current injection through two-dimensional (2D) finite-volume simulations. Though such lasers can achieve ultra-lo…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Inverse-Designed Silicon Nitride Nanophotonics

Toby Bi, Shuangyou Zhang, Egemen Bostan +12

Silicon nitride photonics has enabled integration of a variety of components for applications in linear and nonlinear optics, including telecommunications, optical clocks, astrocom…

physics.optics2025★ 50 cited

Optical Kerr soliton microcombs for high bandwidth communications

Bill Corcoran, Arnan Mitchell, Roberto Morandotti +2

Microcombs, optical frequency combs generated by nonlinear integrated micro-cavity resonators, have the potential to offer the full capability of their benchtop comb based counterp…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Optical microcavity characterization via resonance spectra and modes

Jonah Post, Chunjiang He, Corné Koks +6

This paper describes how resonance spectra and mode profiles can be used to characterize and quantify the mode-shaping effects in open-access plano-concave optical microcavities. T…

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

Toward single-photon detection with superconducting niobium diselenide nanowires

Pietro Metuh, Athanasios Paralikis, Paweł Wyborski +9

We present superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) based on few-layer NbSe fully encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), demonstrating single-photon…

physics.optics2025

Experimental Analysis of a Self-Coherent M-QAM Receiver by Means of Recurrent Optical Spectrum Slicing and Direct Detection

Kostas Sozos, Francesco Da Ros, Senior Member Optica +6

High order modulation formats constitute the most prominent way for increasing spectral efficiency in transmission systems. Coherent transceivers that support such higher order for…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Deterministic fabrication of GaAs-quantum-dot micropillar single-photon sources

Abdulmalik A. Madigawa, Martin Arentoft Jacobsen, Claudia Piccinini +6

This study investigates the performance of droplet-etched GaAs quantum dots (QDs) integrated into micropillar structures using a deterministic fabrication technique. We demonstrate…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Computational discovery of high-refractive-index van der Waals materials: The case of HfS

Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto, Mark Kamper Svendsen, Amalie H. Søndersted +9

New high-refractive-index dielectric materials may enhance many optical technologies by enabling efficient manipulation of light in waveguides, metasurfaces, and nanoscale resonato…

physics.optics2025

Multiple truly topological unidirectional surface magnetoplasmons at terahertz frequencies

Shengquan Fan, Tianjing Guo, Binbin Zhou +7

Unidirectional propagation based on surface magnetoplasmons (SMPs) has recently been realized at the interface of magnetized semiconductors. However, usually SMPs lose their unidir…