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physics.optics2022★ 8 cited

Scattering-assisted and logic-controllable WGM laser in liquid crystal micropillar

Jin Chuan Zhang, Hong Yang Zhu, Xiao Mei Zhu +6

Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities can efficiently store and manipulate light with strong light confinement and long photon lifetime, while coupling light into and from WG…

physics.optics2021★ 12 cited

Ideal type-II Weyl points in twisted one-dimensional dielectric photonic crystals

Ying Chen, Hai-xiao Wang, Qiaoliang Bao +2

Weyl points are the degenerate points in three-dimensional momentum space with nontrivial topological phase, which are usually realized in classical system with structure and symme…

physics.optics2018★ 33 cited

Interlayer Topological Transport and Devices based on Layer Pseudospins in Photonic Valley-Hall Phases

Xiaoxiao Wu, Zhenyu Li, Jian Chen +8

Valley-Hall phases, first proposed in two-dimensional (2D) materials, originate from nontrivial topologies around valleys which denote local extrema in momentum space. Since they a…

physics.optics2018★ 23 cited

Ultrafast cryptography with indefinitely switchable optical nanoantennas

Pujuan Ma, Lei Gao, Pavel Ginzburg +1

Bistability is widely exploited to demonstrate all-optical signal processing and light-based computing. The standard paradigm of switching between two steady states corresponding t…

physics.optics2018★ 142 cited

Arbitrary order exceptional point induced by photonic spin-orbit interaction in coupled resonators

Shubo Wang, Bo Hou, Weixin Lu +3

Many novel properties of non-Hermitian systems are found at or near the exceptional points-branch points of complex energy surfaces at which eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce.…

physics.optics2018★ 18 cited

Optical tristability and ultrafast Fano switching in nonlinear magneto-plasmonic nanoparticles

Wenjing Yu, Pujuan Ma, Hua Sun +2

We consider light scattering by a coated magneto-plasmonic nanoparticle (MPNP) with a Kerr-type nonlinear plasmonic shell and a magneto-optic core. Such structure features two plas…

physics.optics2018★ 143 cited

Topological light-trapping on a dislocation

Fei-Fei Li, Hai-Xiao Wang, Zhan Xiong +6

Topology has been revealed to play a fundamental role in physics in the past decades. Topological insulators have unconventional gapless edge states where disorder-induced back-sca…

physics.optics2017★ 95 cited

Topological transitions in continuously-deformed photonic crystals

Xuan Zhu, Hai-Xiao Wang, Changqing Xu +3

We demonstrate that multiple topological transitions can occur, with high-sensitivity, by continuous change of the geometry of a simple 2D dielectric-frame photonic crystal consist…

physics.optics2017★ 48 cited

Fano-enhanced pulling and pushing optical force on active plasmonic nanoparticles

D. L. Gao, R. Shi, Y. Huang +2

We demonstrate tunable pulling and pushing optical forces on plasmonic nanostructures around Fano resonance. The plasmonic nanostructure containing a spherical core with optical ga…

physics.optics2017★ 69 cited

Type-II Dirac Photons

Hai-Xiao Wang, Yige Chen, Zhi Hong Hang +2

The Dirac equation for relativistic electron waves is the parent model for Weyl and Majorana fermions as well as topological insulators. Simulation of Dirac physics in three-dimens…

physics.optics2016★ 500 cited

Visualization of unidirectional optical waveguide using topological photonic crystals made of dielectric material

Yuting Yang, Yun Fei Xu, Tao Xu +4

The introduction of topology unravels a new chapter of physics. Topological systems provide unique edge/interfacial quantum states which are expected to contribute to the developme…

physics.optics2016★ 5 cited

Generalized Surface Polaritons and their quantum spin Hall effect

Yadong Xu, Jian-Hua Jiang, Huanyang Chen

Surface polaritons, e.g., surface plasmon polaritons, are invaluable tools in nanophotonics. However, considerable plasmon loss narrows the application regime of plasmonic devices.…

physics.optics2015

Coexistence of Scattering Enhancement and Suppression by Plasmonic Cavity Modes in Loaded Dimer Gap-Antennas

Qiang Zhang, Jun-Jun Xiao, Meili Li +2

Plasmonic nanoantenna is of promising applications in optical sensing, single-molecular detection, and enhancement of optical nonlinear effect, surface optical spectroscopy, photoc…

physics.optics2015★ 243 cited

Invisible sensor: Simultaneous sensing and camouflaging in multiphysical fields

Tian-Zhi Yang, Xue Bai, Dongliang Gao +4

To manipulate various types of physical signals in one single device has long captivated the attention of scientists and engineers. This however is very challenging, if not impossi…