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Photonic Learning in Ultrafast Laser-Induced Complexity

Fayad Ali Banna, Eduardo Brandao, Anthony Nakhoul +3

How can one design complex systems capable of learning for a given functionality? In the context of ultrafast laser-surface interaction, we unravel the nature of learning schemes t…

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

The universality of filamentation-caused challenges of ultrafast laser energy deposition in semiconductors

Maxime Chambonneau, Markus Blothe, Vladimir Yu. Fedorov +3

Light propagation in semiconductors is the cornerstone of emerging disruptive technologies holding considerable potential to revolutionize telecommunications, sensors, quantum engi…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Large and Versatile Plasmonic Enhancement of Photoluminescence Using Colloidal Metallic Nanocubes

Khaywah Mohammad, Potdevin Audrey, Rvert François +8

Improving phosphor photoluminescence efficiency is a key parameter to boost the performances of many optical devices. In this work, colloidal silver nanocubes, homogeneously spread…

physics.optics2022★ 7 cited

Properties of optical ducts, their chromatism and its effects on astronomical refraction

Luc Dettwiller

The fundamental quadrature governing light rays in a spherically symmetrical medium is first recalled. A rigorous discussion of some qualitative properties of its solutions follows…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Short review on the refractive index of air as a function of temperature, pressure, humidity and ionization

Luc Dettwiller

The empirical law of Gladstone-Dale is insufficient for high-precision studies using the refractivity of a gas: this is not exactly proportional to its density, and the gas may not…

physics.optics2021★ 69 cited

Hard X-ray Transient Grating Spectroscopy on Bismuth Germanate

Jeremy R. Rouxel, Danny Fainozzi, Roman Mankowsky +44

Optical-domain Transient Grating (TG) spectroscopy is a versatile background-free four-wave-mixing technique used to probe vibrational, magnetic and electronic degrees of freedom i…

physics.optics2020★ 121 cited

Fundamental limitations of Huygens metasurfaces for optical beam shaping

Carlo Gigli, Qitong Li, Pierre Chavel +3

Optical dielectric metasurfaces composed of arrayed nanostructures are expected to enable arbitrary spatial control of incident wavefronts with subwavelength spatial resolution. Fo…

physics.optics2019★ 30 cited

Plasma formation and relaxation dynamics in fused silica driven by femtosecond short-wavelength infrared laser pulses

P. Jürgens, M. J. J. Vrakking, R. Stoian +1

Laser-induced plasma formation and subsequent relaxation in solid dielectrics is the precursor to structural modifications that are accompanied by a permanent alteration of materia…

physics.optics2017★ 5 cited

Direct S-matrix calculation for diffractive structures and metasurfaces

Alexey A. Shcherbakov, Yury V. Stebunov, Denis F. Baidin +2

The paper presents a derivation of analytical components of S-matrices for arbitrary planar diffractive structures and metasurfaces in the Fourier domain. Attained general formulas…

physics.optics2016★ 526 cited

Metalenses at visible wavelengths: past, present, perspectives

Philippe Lalanne, Pierre Chavel

The so-called "flat optics" that shapes the phase of an incident wave in free space through subwavelength structures has a venerable history. In that domain, achieving high efficie…

physics.optics2015★ 26 cited

Ultrafast Surface Plasmonic Switch in Non-Plasmonic Metals

E. Bévillon, J. P. Colombier, V. Recoules +3

We demonstrate that ultrafast carrier excitation can drastically affect electronic structures and induce brief surface plasmonic response in non-plasmonic metals, potentially creat…

physics.optics2008★ 33 cited

Transient optical response of ultrafast nonequilibrium excited metals: Effects of electron-electron contribution to collisional absorption

Jean-Philippe Colombier, Patrick Combis, Eric Audouard +1

Approaching energy coupling in laser-irradiated metals, we point out the role of electron-electron collision as an efficient control factor for ultrafast optical absorption. The hi…

physics.optics2007★ 1 cited

Towards Low Cost Coupling Structures for Short-Distance Optical Interconnections

N. Hendrickx, J. Van Erps, T. Alajoki +6

The performance of short distance optical interconnections in general relies very strongly on coupling structures, since they will determine the overall efficiency of the system to…