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physics.optics2018★ 2 cited

Active Two-dimensional Steering of Radiation from a Nano-Aperture

Laura S. Dreissen, Hugo F. Schouten, Wim Ubachs +2

We experimentally demonstrate control over the direction of radiation of a beam that passes through a square nano-aperture in a metal film. The ratio of the aperture size and the w…

physics.optics2018★ 108 cited

Optical parametric generation in a lithium niobate microring with modal phase matching

Rui Luo, Yang He, Hanxiao Liang +3

The lithium niobate integrated photonic platform has recently shown great promise in nonlinear optics on a chip scale. Here, we report second-harmonic generation in a high-Q lithiu…

physics.optics2018★ 47 cited

Hermite-Gaussian mode sorter

Yiyu Zhou, Jiapeng Zhao, Zhimin Shi +5

The Hermite-Gaussian (HG) modes, sometimes also referred to as transverse electromagnetic modes in free space, form a complete and orthonormal basis that have been extensively used…

physics.optics2018★ 52 cited

Realization of a scalable Laguerre-Gaussian mode sorter based on a robust radial mode sorter

Dongzhi Fu, Yiyu Zhou, Rui Qi +8

The transverse structure of light is recognized as a resource that can be used to encode information onto photons and has been shown to be useful to enhance communication capacity…

physics.optics2018★ 19 cited

Measurement of the radial mode spectrum of photons through a phase-retrieval method

Saumya Choudhary, Rachel Sampson, Yoko Miyamoto +4

We propose and demonstrate a simple and easy-to-implement projective-measurement protocol to determine the radial index 'p' of a Laguerre-Gaussian (LGlp) mode. Our method entails c…

physics.optics2018

Semi-nonlinear nanophotonic waveguides for highly efficient second-harmonic generation

Rui Luo, Yang He, Hanxiao Liang +2

Quadratic optical parametric processes form the foundation for a variety of applications related to classical and quantum frequency conversion, which have attracted significant int…

physics.optics2018★ 15 cited

Lorenz-Mie scattering of focused light via complex focus fields: an analytic treatment

Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Cuevas, Nicole J. Moore, Miguel A. Alonso

The Lorenz-Mie scattering of a wide class of focused electromagnetic fields off spherical particles is studied. The focused fields in question are constructed through complex focal…

physics.optics2018★ 51 cited

Using all transverse degrees of freedom in quantum communications based on a generic mode sorter

Yiyu Zhou, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Stone Oliver +5

The dimension of the state space for information encoding offered by the transverse structure of light is usually limited by the finite size of apertures. The widely used orbital a…

physics.optics2018★ 19 cited

Nonlinear optics of graphene and other 2D materials in layered structures

J. L. Cheng, J. E. Sipe, N. Vermeulen +1

We present a theoretical framework for nonlinear optics of graphene and other 2D materials in layered structures. We derive a key equation to find the effective electric field and…

physics.optics2018★ 63 cited

High-Q two-dimensional lithium niobate photonic crystal slab nanoresonators

Mingxiao Li, Hanxiao Liang, Rui Luo +2

Lithium niobate (LN), known as "silicon of photonics," exhibits outstanding material characteristics with great potential for broad applications. Enhancing light-matter interaction…

physics.optics2018★ 38 cited

Measuring geometric phase without interferometry

T. Malhotra, R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas, J. Hassett +3

A simple non-interferometric approach for probing the geometric phase of a structured Gaussian beam is proposed. Both the Gouy and Pancharatnam-Berry phases can be determined from…

physics.optics2018★ 23 cited

Simultaneous measurement of multiple parameters of a subwavelength structure based on the weak value formalism

Anthony Vella, Stephen T. Head, Thomas G. Brown +1

A mathematical extension of the weak value formalism to the simultaneous measurement of multiple parameters is presented in the context of an optical focused vector beam scatterome…

physics.optics2018★ 8 cited

Femtosecond Pulse Trains through Dual-Pumping of Optical Fibers: Role of Third-Order Dispersion

Aku Antikainen, Govind P. Agrawal

Generation of high-repetition-rate, femtosecond, soliton pulse trains through dual-wavelength pumping of a dispersion-decreasing fiber is studied numerically. The achievable shorte…

physics.optics2018★ 5 cited

Highly-tunable efficient second-harmonic generation in a lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguide

Rui Luo, Yang He, Hanxiao Liang +2

Highly-tunable coherent light generation is crucial for many important photonic applications. Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a dominant approach for this purpose, which, howev…

physics.optics2018★ 57 cited

Using surface lattice resonances to engineer nonlinear optical processes in metal nanoparticle arrays

Mikko J. Huttunen, Payman Rasekh, Robert W. Boyd +1

Collective responses of localized surface plasmon resonances, known as surface lattice resonances (SLRs) in metal nanoparticle arrays, can lead to high quality factors (~100), larg…

physics.optics2018★ 5 cited

Complete confined bases for beam propagation in Cartesian coordinates

Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Cuevas, Miguel A. Alonso

Complete bases that are useful for beam propagation problems and that present the distinct property of being spatially confined at the initial plane are proposed. These bases are c…

physics.optics2018★ 8 cited

Polynomials of Gaussians and vortex-Gaussian beams as complete, transversely confined bases

Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Cuevas, Miguel A. Alonso

A novel type of discrete basis for paraxial beams is proposed, consisting of monomial vortices times polynomials of Gaussians in the radial variable. These bases have the distincti…

physics.optics2018★ 9 cited

Implementation of nearly arbitrary spatially-varying polarization transformations: a non-diffractive and non-interferometric approach using spatial light modulators

M. T. Runyon, C. H. Nacke, A. Sit +3

A fast and automated scheme for general polarization transformations holds great value in adaptive optics, quantum information, and virtually all applications involving light-matte…