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Circular Huygens Dipoles: Unidirectional Spin-Angular Momentum from Achiral Nanoparticles
Esmaeel Zanganeh, Antonio Lombardo
Simultaneous control over the directionality and spin of light at the nanoscale is a central goal in nanophotonics with applications ranging from quantum information to advanced bi…
Strong coupling of collective optical resonances in dielectric metasurfaces
Izzatjon Allayarov, Vittorio Aita, Diane J. Roth +5
Dielectric metasurfaces can achieve strong light-matter interaction based on several types of collective (nonlocal) resonances, such as surface lattice resonances (SLRs) and quasi…
Meso-chiral optical properties of plasmonic nanoparticles: uncovering hidden chirality
Yuanyang Xie, Alexey V. Krasavin, Anatoly V. Zayats
Molecular chirality plays an important role in chemistry and biology, allows control of biological interactions, affects drugs efficacy and safety, and promotes synthesis of new ma…
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…
Temporal synthesis of optical nonlinearity through synergy of spectrally-tuneable electron and phonon dynamics in a metamaterial
Jingyi Wu, Anton Yu. Bykov, Anastasiia Zaleska +1
Manipulating intensity, phase and polarization of the electromagnetic fields on ultrafast timescales is essential for all-optical switching, optical information processing and deve…
Generating optical angular momentum through wavefront curvature
Kayn A. Forbes, Vittorio Aita, Anatoly V. Zayats
Recent developments in the understanding of optical angular momentum have resulted in many demonstrations of unusual optical phenomena, such as optical beams with orbital angular m…
Active control of excitonic strong coupling and electroluminescence in electrically driven plasmonic nanocavities
Junsheng Zheng, Ruoxue Yang, Alexey V. Krasavin +9
Enhancement and active control of light-matter interactions at the atomic scale is important for developing next-generation nanophotonic and quantum optical devices. Here, we demon…
Unidirectional chiral scattering from single enantiomeric plasmonic nanoparticles
Yuanyang Xie, Alexey V. Krasavin, Diane J. Roth +1
Controlling scattering and routing of chiral light at the nanoscale is important for optical information processing and imaging, quantum technologies as well as optical manipulatio…
Vertical CNT-Si Photodiode Array
Arman Ahnood, Hang Zhou, Qing Dai +5
A photodiode consisting of nanopillars of thin-film silicon p-i-n on an array of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with a noncontinuous cathode electrode is demonstrated.…
Minireview on Disordered Optical Metasurfaces
P. Lalanne, A. Dmitriev, C. Rockstuhl +2
The use of coherent wave phenomena to enhance device performance is a cornerstone of modern optics. In juxtaposition to (locally) periodic metasurfaces, their disordered counterpar…
Large-area, freestanding single-crystal gold of single nanometer thickness
Chenxinyu Pan, Yuanbiao Tong, Haoliang Qian +14
Two-dimensional single-crystal metals are highly sought after for next-generation technologies. Here, we report large-area (>10^4 μm2), single-crystal two-dimensional gold with thi…
Non-Diffracting Polarisation Features around Far-Field Zeros of Electromagnetic Radiation
Alex J. Vernon, Andrew Kille, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño +1
Light from any physical source diffracts over space, as spherical wavefronts grow and energy density is spread out. Diffractive effects pose fundamental limits to light-based techn…
Dynamic dielectric metasurfaces via control of surface lattice resonances in non-homogeneous environment
Izzatjon Allayarov, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Diane J. Roth +3
Dynamic control of metamaterials and metasurfaces is crucial for many photonic technologies, such as flat lenses, displays, augmented reality devices, and beam steering, to name a…
Roadmap on structured waves
K. Y. Bliokh, E. Karimi, M. J. Padgett +47
Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum, where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane wave.…
Structured transverse orbital angular momentum probed by a levitated optomechanical sensor
Yanhui Hu, Jack J. Kingsley-Smith, Maryam Nikkhou +4
The momentum carried by structured light fields exhibits a rich array of surprising features. In this work, we generate transverse orbital angular momentum (TOAM) in the interferen…
Topological Transformation and Free-Space Transport of Photonic Hopfions
Yijie Shen, Bingshi Yu, Haijun Wu +3
Structured light fields embody strong spatial variations of polarisation, phase and amplitude. Understanding, characterization and exploitation of such fields can be achieved throu…
Optical skyrmions and other topological quasiparticles of light
Yijie Shen, Qiang Zhang, Peng Shi +3
Skyrmions are topologically stable quasiparticles that have been predicted and demonstrated in quantum fields, solid-state physics, and magnetic materials, but only recently observ…
Atomically smooth single-crystalline platform for low-loss plasmonic nanocavities
Lufang Liu, Alexey V. Krasavin, Junsheng Zheng +10
Nanoparticle-on-mirror plasmonic nanocavities, capable of extreme optical confinement and enhancement, have triggered state-of-the-art progress in nanophotonics and development of…
Photonic spin lattices: symmetry constraints for skyrmion and meron topologies
Xinrui Lei, Aiping Yang, Peng Shi +4
Symmetry governs many electronic and photonic phenomena in optics and condensed matter physics. Skyrmions and merons are prominent topological structures in magnetic materials, wit…
Transverse spinning of unpolarized light
J. S. Eismann, L. H. Nicholls, D. J. Roth +6
It is well known that spin angular momentum of light, and therefore that of photons, is directly related to their circular polarization. Naturally, for totally unpolarized light, p…
Transverse spin dynamics of light: the generalized spin-momentum locking for structured guided modes
Peng Shi, Luping Du, Congcong Li +2
Quantum spin-Hall effect, a manifestation of topological properties that govern the behavior of surface states, was studied intensively in condensed matter physics resulting in the…
Amplitude and phase control of guided modes excitation from a single dipole source:engineering far- and near-field directionality
Michela F. Picardi, Anatoly V. Zayats, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
The design of far-field radiation diagrams from combined electric and magnetic dipolar sources has recently found applications in nanophotonic metasurfaces that realize tailored re…
Experimental demonstration of linear and spinning Janus dipoles for polarisation and wavelength selective near-field coupling
Michela F. Picardi, Martin Neugebauer, Joerg S. Eismann +4
The electromagnetic field scattered by nano-objects contains a broad range of wave vectors and can be efficiently coupled to waveguided modes. The dominant contribution to scatteri…
Deep-subwavelength features of photonic skyrmions in a confined electromagnetic field with orbital angular momentum
Luping Du, Aiping Yang, Anatoly V. Zayats +1
In magnetic materials, skyrmions are nanoscale regions where the orientation of electron spin changes in a vortex-type manner. Here we show that spin-orbit coupling in a focused ve…