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20192026
most citedRoom Temperature Initialisation and Readout of Intrinsic Spin Defects in a Van der Waals Crystal

557 citations

93 papers

physics.optics2026

Insights into the Nature of Quantum Emitters in Electron-Irradiated hexagonal Boron Nitride

Mouli Hazra, Anna Rupp, Mohammad N. Mishuk +10

Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as a promising solid-state platform for quantum technology applications. However, a persistent challenge in the field…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Multi-wavelength Spin Dynamics of Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Ivan Zhigulin, Nicholas P. Sloane, Benjamin Whitefield +3

Optically addressable solid-state spin defects are essential platforms for quantum sensing and information processing. Recently, single spin defects with combined S = 1 and S = 1/2…

physics.optics2025

Polarization-Sensitive Au-TiO2 Nanopillars for Tailored Photocatalytic Activity

Ning Lyu, Anjalie Edirisooriya, Zelio Fusco +4

Plasmonic metasurfaces play a crucial role in resonance-driven photocatalytic reactions by effectively enhancing reactivity via localized surface plasmon resonances. Catalytic acti…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Valley-dependent emission patterns enabled by plasmonic nanoantennas

Tobias Bucher, Jingshi Yan, Jan Sperrhake +12

Selective control over the emission pattern of valley-polarized excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides is crucial for developing novel valleytronic, quantum informa…

physics.optics2025★ 16 cited

Enhanced photon-pair generation from a van der Waals metasurface

Tongmiao Fan, Yilin Tang, Shaun Lung +11

Quantum photon pairs play a pivotal role in many quantum applications. Metasurfaces, two-dimensional arrays of nanostructures, have been studied intensively to enhance and control…

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…

quant-ph2025★ 7 cited

Quantifying Spin Defect Density in hBN via Raman and Photoluminescence Analysis

Atanu Patra, Paul Konrad, Andreas Sperlich +6

Negatively charged boron vacancies () in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are emerging as promising solid-state spin qubits due to their optical accessibility, structu…

physics.app-ph2025★ 29 cited

Room-Temperature High-Purity Single Photon Emission from Carbon-Doped Boron Nitride Thin Films

Arka Chatterjee, Abhijit Biswas, Addis S. Fuhr +5

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as an excellent host material for generating room temperature single photons exhibiting high brightness and spin-photon entanglement. Howe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 74 cited

Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials

F. Javier García de Abajo, D. N. Basov, Frank H. L. Koppens +145

Triggered by the development of exfoliation and the identification of a wide range of extraordinary physical properties in self-standing films consisting of one or few atomic layer…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Direct measurement of broken time-reversal symmetry in centrosymmetric and non-centrosymmetric atomically thin crystals with nonlinear Kerr rotation

Florentine Friedrich, Paul Herrmann, Shridhar Sanjay Shanbhag +3

Time-reversal symmetry, together with space-inversion symmetry, is one of the defining properties of crystals, underlying phenomena such as magnetism, topology and non-trivial spin…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Ultrafast Coherent Bandgap Modulation Probed by Parametric Nonlinear Optics

Sebastian Klimmer, Thomas Lettau, Laura Valencia Molina +5

Light-matter interactions in crystals are powerful tools that seamlessly allow both functionalities of sizeable bandgap modulation and non-invasive spectroscopy. While we often ass…

physics.optics2025★ 5 cited

Parametric metasurfaces for amplified up-conversion of electromagnetic waves

Fedor V. Kovalev, Ilya V. Shadrivov

Spatiotemporal metasurfaces, characterized by dynamic variations in both space and time, enable functionalities unattainable with passive metasurfaces. In this study, we propose a…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Broadband bright biphotons from periodically poled triple-resonance metasurface

Jihua Zhang, Chaoxin Shi, Jinyong Ma +5

Biphotons from spontaneous parametric down conversion with broad bandwidth are highly wanted in many quantum technologies. However, achieving broad bandwidth in both frequency and…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Metasurface-enabled small-satellite polarisation imaging

Sarah E. Dean, Josephine Munro, Neuton Li +3

Polarisation imaging is used to distinguish objects and surface characteristics that are otherwise not visible with black-and-white or colour imaging. Full-Stokes polarisation imag…

quant-ph2024★ 39 cited

Quantum Optics Applications of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Defects

Aslı Çakan, Chanaprom Cholsuk, Angus Gale +6

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a compelling platform for both classical and quantum technologies. In particular, the past decade has witnessed a surge of novel ideas…

physics.optics2024

Large-area multiwavelength and polarization-insensitive metalenses via multilayer Huygens metasurfaces

Joshua Jordaan, Alexander Minovich, Dragomir Neshev +1

Metalenses, advanced nanostructured alternatives to conventional lenses, significantly enhance the compactness and functionality of optical systems. Despite progress in monochromat…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Angle multifunctional dichroism in metasurfaces

Neuton Li, Jihua Zhang, Dragomir Neshev +1

We demonstrate metasurfaces with strong polarization dichroism that depends on the angle of incidence. We present original designs obtained through topology optimization that selec…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 14 cited

Violet to near-infrared optical addressing of spin pairs in hexagonal boron nitride

Priya Singh, Islay O. Robertson, Sam C. Scholten +9

Optically addressable solid-state spins are an important platform for practical quantum technologies. Van der Waals material hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a promising host as it…

physics.optics2024★ 24 cited

Generation of tunable quantum entanglement via nonlinearity symmetry breaking in semiconductor metasurfaces

Jinyong Ma, Tongmiao Fan, Tuomas Haggren +10

Tunable biphoton quantum entanglement generated from nonlinear processes is highly desirable for cutting-edge quantum technologies, yet its tunability is substantially constrained…

physics.optics2024★ 40 cited

Quantum Imaging Using Spatially Entangled Photon Pairs from a Nonlinear Metasurface

Jinyong Ma, Jinliang Ren, Jihua Zhang +4

Nonlinear metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness were recently established as versatile platforms for the enhanced and tailorable generation of entangled photon pairs. The small…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 2 cited

A charge transfer mechanism for optically addressable solid-state spin pairs

Islay O. Robertson, Benjamin Whitefield, Sam C. Scholten +9

Optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) with no resolvable zero-field splitting has been observed from emitters in hexagonal boron nitride across a broad range of wavelengths,…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Metasurfaces for infrared multi-modal microscopy: phase contrast and bright field

Shaban B. Sulejman, Lukas Wesemann, Mikkaela McCormack +9

Different imaging modalities are used to extract the diverse information carried in an optical field. Two prominent modalities include bright field and phase contrast microscopy th…

physics.optics2024★ 50 cited

Enhanced infrared vision by nonlinear up-conversion in nonlocal metasurfaces

Laura Valencia Molina, Rocio Camacho Morales, Jihua Zhang +4

The ability to detect and image short-wave infrared light has important applications in surveillance, autonomous navigation, and biological imaging. However, the current infrared i…

astro-ph.IM2024

Metasurface-based Toroidal Lenslet Array Design for Addressing Laser Guide Star Elongation

Josephine Munro, Sarah E. Dean, Neuton Li +6

The Giant Magellan Telescope will use laser tomography adaptive optics to correct for atmospheric turbulence using artificial guide stars created in the sodium layer of the atmosph…