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physics.optics2026

Far-field heat transfer and monochromatic thermal currents in a cylindrical nonreciprocal cavity

Guillem Masdemont, Julien Legendre, Georgia T. Papadakis

Breaking Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation yields new opportunities in one-way radiative thermal transport and circuitry. We investigate its consequences in the far-field regime…

physics.optics2025

Bulk-to-surface coupling of spatiotemporal vortices

Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Michela F. Picardi, Konstantin Y. Bliokh

We consider the coupling of bulk space-time-structured waves, such as spatiotemporal vortex pulses (STVPs), to surface waves, such as surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs). For resonan…

physics.optics2023

Determination and correction of spectral phase from principal component analysis of coherent phonons

Emmanuel B. Amuah, Khalid M. Siddiqui, Maurizio Monti +2

Measuring the spectral phase of a pulse is key for performing wavelength resolved ultrafast measurements in the few femtosecond regime. However, accurate measurements in real exper…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

Rotating topological edge solitons

Sergey K. Ivanov, Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We address the formation of topological edge solitons in rotating Su-Schrieffer-Heeger waveguide arrays. The linear spectrum of the non-rotating topological array is characterized…

physics.optics2022★ 29 cited

Laser-written vapor cells for chip-scale atomic sensing and spectroscopy

Vito Giovanni Lucivero, Andrea Zanoni, Giacomo Corrielli +2

We report the fabrication of alkali-metal vapor cells using femtosecond laser machining. This laser-written vapor-cell (LWVC) technology allows arbitrarily-shaped 3D interior volum…

physics.optics2021★ 22 cited

Giant chiro-optical response in high harmonic generation

David Ayuso, Andres F. Ordonez, Piero Decleva +2

High harmonic generation (HHG) records the ultrafast electronic response of matter to light, encoding key properties of the interrogated quantum system, such as chirality. The firs…

physics.optics2021★ 20 cited

Unidirectional guided resonances in anisotropic waveguides

Samyobrata Mukherjee, Jordi Gomis-Bresco, David Artigas +1

We show that anisotropic planar anti-guiding waveguide structures with two radiation channels towards the surrounding cladding materials can support unidirectional guided resonance…

physics.optics2020★ 8 cited

Complete Coupling of Focused Light to Surface Polaritons

Eduardo J. C. Dias, F. Javier García de Abajo

Surface polaritons display short wavelengths compared to propagating light, thus enabling large spatial concentration and enhancement of electromagnetic energy. However, this wavel…

physics.optics2020★ 51 cited

Chiral Light Emission from a Sphere Revealed by Nanoscale Relative Phase Mapping

Taeko Matsukata, F. Javier Garcia de Abajo, Takumi Sannomiya

Circularly polarized light (CPL) is currently receiving much attention as a key ingredient for next-generation information technologies, such as quantum communication and encryptio…

physics.optics2020★ 42 cited

Efficient generation of extreme terahertz harmonics in 3D Dirac semimetals

J. Lim, Y. S. Ang, F. J. G. de Abajó +3

Frequency multiplication of terahertz signals on a solid state platform is highly sought-after for the next generation of high-speed electronics and the creation of frequency combs…

physics.optics2020★ 66 cited

Vector Topological Edge Solitons in Floquet Insulators

Sergey K. Ivanov, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Alexander Szameit +2

We introduce topological vector edge solitons in a Floquet insulator, consisting of two honeycomb arrays of helical waveguides with opposite directions of rotation in a focusing no…

physics.optics2020★ 42 cited

Probing chirality with inelastic electron-light scattering

Tyler R. Harvey, Jan-Wilke Henke, Ofer Kfir +4

Circular dichroism spectroscopy is an essential technique for understanding molecular structure and magnetic materials, but spatial resolution is limited by the wavelength of light…

physics.optics2020★ 178 cited

Far-field Excitation of Single Graphene Plasmon Cavities with Ultra-compressed Mode-volumes

Itai Epstein, David Alcaraz, Zhiqin Huang +9

Acoustic-graphene-plasmons (AGPs) are highly confined electromagnetic modes, carrying large momentum and low loss in the mid-infrared/Terahertz spectra. Owing to their ability to c…

physics.optics2020★ 352 cited

Simple experimental procedures to distinguish photothermal from hot-carrier processes in plasmonics

Guillaume Baffou, Ivan Bordacchini, Andrea Baldi +1

Light absorption and scattering of plasmonic metal nanoparticles can lead to non-equilibrium charge carriers, intense electromagnetic near-fields, and heat generation, with promisi…

physics.optics2020★ 49 cited

Enhanced high-harmonic generation from chromium-doped magnesium oxide

V. E. Nefedova, S. Fröhlich, N. Tancogne-Dejean +15

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) from crystals offers a new source of coherent extreme ultraviolet (XUV) attosecond radiation.

physics.optics2019★ 234 cited

Anisotropy-induced photonic bound states in the continuum

Jordi Gomis-Bresco, David Artigas, Lluis Torner

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are radiationless localized states embedded in the part of the parameter space that otherwise corresponds to radiative modes. Many decades afte…

physics.optics2019★ 40 cited

Robust ultrashort light bullets in strongly twisted waveguide arrays

Carles Milián, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Lluis Torner

We introduce a new class of stable light bullets that form in twisted waveguide arrays pumped withultrashort pulses, where twisting offers a powerful knob to tune the properties of…

physics.optics2019★ 95 cited

Near-unity light absorption in a monolayer WS2 van der Waals heterostructure cavity

Itai Epstein, Bernat Terrés, André J. Chaves +12

Excitons in monolayer transition-metal-dichalcogenides (TMDs) dominate their optical response and exhibit strong light-matter interactions with lifetime-limited emission. While var…

physics.optics2019★ 50 cited

Topological properties of bound-states-in-the-continuum in geometries with broken anisotropy-symmetry

Samyobrata Mukherjee, Jordi Gomis-Bresco, Pilar Pujol-Closa +2

Waveguiding structures made of anisotropic media support bound states in the continuum (BICs) that arise when the radiation channel of otherwise semi-leaky modes is suppressed. Hit…

physics.optics2019★ 3 cited

Rotational Doppler cooling and heating

Deng Pan, Hongxing Xu, F. Javier García de Abajo

Doppler cooling is a widely used technique to laser cool atoms and nanoparticles exploiting the Doppler shift involved in translational transformations. The rotational Doppler effe…

physics.optics2019★ 24 cited

Optimized White Reflectance in Photonic Network Structures

Francesco Utel, Lorenzo Cortese, Diederik S. Wiersma +1

Three-dimensional disordered networks are receiving increasing attention as versatile architectures for highly scattering materials. However, due to their complex morphology, littl…

physics.optics2019★ 55 cited

Extraction of higher-order nonlinear electronic response to strong field excitation in solids using high harmonic generation

Seunghwoi Han, Lisa Ortmann, Hyunwoong Kim +9

State-of-the-art experiments employ strong ultrafast optical fields to study the nonlinear response of electrons in solids on an attosecond time-scale. Notably, a recent experiment…

physics.optics2019★ 1 cited

Graded-index optical fiber emulator of an interacting three-atom system: illumination control of particle statistics and classical non-separability

M. A. Garcia-March, N. L. Harshman, H. da Silva +4

We show that a system of three trapped ultracold and strongly interacting atoms in one-dimension can be emulated using an optical fiber with a graded-index profile and thin metalli…

physics.optics2019★ 368 cited

Light with a self-torque: extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum

Laura Rego, Kevin M. Dorney, Nathan J. Brooks +11

Twisted light fields carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) provide powerful capabilities for applications in optical communications, microscopy, quantum optics and microparticle…