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physics.optics2024★ 10 cited

Influence of resonant plasmonic nanoparticles on optically accessing the valley degree of freedom in 2D semiconductors

Tobias Bucher, Zlata Fedorova, Mostafa Abasifard +10

The valley degree of freedom is one of the most intriguing properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides. Together with the possibility to address this degree of f…

physics.optics2022★ 90 cited

Tailoring topological transition of anisotropic polaritons by interface engineering in biaxial crystals

Yali Zeng, Qingdong Ou, Lu Liu +11

Polaritons in polar biaxial crystals with extreme anisotropy offer a promising route to manipulate nanoscale light-matter interactions. The dynamical modulation of their dispersion…

physics.optics2021★ 17 cited

Coherent Dynamics of Floquet-Bloch States in Monolayer WS2 Reveals Fast Adiabatic Switching

S. K. Earl, M. A. Conway, J. B Muir +4

Floquet engineering offers a path to optically-controlled materials, but experimental implementations have frequently relied on femtosecond pulses to achieve the high peak fields r…

physics.optics2021★ 124 cited

Hybridized hyperbolic surface phonon polaritons at α-MoO3 and polar dielectric interfaces

Qing Zhang, Qingdong Ou, Guangwei Hu +5

Surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) in polar dielectrics offer new opportunities for infrared nanophotonics due to sub-diffraction confinement with low optical losses. Though the pol…

physics.optics2021★ 2 cited

Topological phase transition in an all-optical exciton-polariton lattice

M. Pieczarka, E. Estrecho, S. Ghosh +8

Topological insulators are a class of electronic materials exhibiting robust edge states immune to perturbations and disorder. This concept has been successfully adapted in photoni…

physics.optics2020★ 3 cited

Direct Measurement of a Non-Hermitian Topological Invariant in a Hybrid Light-Matter System

Rui Su, Eliezer Estrecho, Dąbrówka Biegańska +7

Topology is central to understanding and engineering materials that display robust physical phenomena immune to imperfections. Different topological phases of matter are characteri…

physics.optics2020★ 708 cited

Observation of topological polaritons and photonic magic angles in twisted van der Waals bi-layers

Guangwei Hu, Qingdong Ou, Guangyuan Si +9

Twisted two-dimensional bi-layers offer exquisite control on the electronic bandstructure through the interlayer rotation and coupling, enabling magic-angle flat-band superconducti…

physics.optics2020★ 32 cited

Valley-Hall topological plasmons in a graphene nanohole plasmonic crystal waveguide

J. W. You, Z. Lan, Q. Bao +1

We demonstrate that unidirectional and backscattering immune propagation of terahertz optical waves can be achieved in a topological valley-Hall waveguide made of graphene nanohole…

physics.optics2020★ 7 cited

Duplex Mikaelian lenses and duplex Maxwell's fish eye lenses

Huiyan Peng, Senlin Liu, Yuze Wu +6

In this paper, we report two new kinds of absolute optical instruments that can make stigmatically images for geometric optics in two dimensional space. One is called the duplex Mi…

physics.optics2020★ 2 cited

The Luneburg-Lissajous lens

Huiyan Peng, Huashuo Han, Pinchao He +6

We design a new absolute optical instrument by composing Luneburg lens and Lissajous lens, and analyze its imaging mechanism from the perspective of simple harmonic oscillations. T…

physics.optics2019★ 45 cited

Topological-darkness-assisted phase regulation for atomically thin meta-optics

Yingwei Wang, Zi-Lan Deng, Dejiao Hu +13

Two-dimensional (2D) noble-metal dichalcogenides have emerged as a new platform for the realization of versatile flat optics with a considerable degree of miniaturization. However,…

physics.optics2019★ 9 cited

Observation of gain-pinned dissipative solitons in a microcavity laser

Maciej Pieczarka, Dario Poletti, Christian Schneider +4

We demonstrate an experimental approach to create dissipative solitons in a microcavity laser. In particular, we shape the spatial gain profile of a quasi-one-dimensional microcavi…

physics.optics2018★ 2 cited

Topological insulator materials for advanced optoelectronic devices

Zengji Yue, Xiaolin Wang, Min Gu

Topological insulators are quantum materials that have an insulating bulk state and a topologically protected metallic surface state with spin and momentum helical locking and a Di…