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physics.optics2020★ 38 cited

Kelvin's Chirality of Optical Beams

Sergey Nechayev, Jörg S. Eismann, Rasoul Alaee +3

Geometrical chirality is a property of objects that describes three-dimensional mirror-symmetry violation and therefore it requires a non-vanishing spatial extent. In contrary, opt…

physics.optics2020

Coherence effects on estimating two-point separation

Kevin Liang, S. A. Wadood, A. N. Vamivakas

The quantum Fisher information (FI), when applied to the estimation of the separation of two point sources, has been shown to be non-zero in cases where the coherence between the s…

physics.optics2020★ 23 cited

Remarkable Predictive Power of the Modified Long Wavelength Approximation

Ilia L. Rasskazov, Vadim I. Zakomirnyi, Anton D. Utyushev +2

The modified long-wavelength approximation (MLWA), a next order approximation beyond the Rayleigh limit, has been applied usually only to the dipole contribution and for t…

physics.optics2020

Superscattering, Superabsorption, and Nonreciprocity in Nonlinear Antennas

Lin Cheng, Rasoul Alaee, Akbar Safari +3

We propose tunable nonlinear antennas based on an epsilon-near-zero material with a large optical nonlinearity. We show that the absorption and scattering cross sections of the ant…

physics.optics2020★ 25 cited

Multiprobe time reversal for high-fidelity vortex-mode-division multiplexing over a turbulent free-space link

Yiyu Zhou, Jiapeng Zhao, Boris Braverman +5

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons presents a degree of freedom for enhancing the secure key rate of free-space quantum key distribution (QKD) through mode-division mult…

physics.optics2020★ 46 cited

Ultrafast pulse measurement via time-domain single-pixel imaging

Jiapeng Zhao, Jianming Dai, Boris Braverman +2

In contrast with imaging using position-resolving cameras, single-pixel imaging uses a bucket detector along with spatially structured illumination for image recovery. This emergin…

physics.optics2020★ 8 cited

Dependence of the Nonlinear-Optical Response of Materials on their Linear and

Diego M. Solís, Robert W. Boyd, Nader Engheta

We investigate, theoretically and numerically, the dependence of a material's nonlinear-optical response on the linear relative electric permittivity and magnetic permeability…

physics.optics2020★ 19 cited

Kerker Effect, Superscattering, and Scattering Dark State in Atomic Antennas

Rasoul Alaee, Akbar Safari, Vahid Sandoghdar +1

We study scattering phenomena such as the Kerker effect, superscattering, and scattering dark states in a subwavelength atomic antenna consisting of atoms with only electric dipole…

physics.optics2020★ 1 cited

Clustering Diffused-Particle Method for Scattering from Large Ensembles of Electromagnetically Polarizable Particles

Lang Wang, Ilia L. Rasskazov, P. Scott Carney

The Foldy-Lax equation is generalized for a medium which consists of particles with both electric and magnetic responses. The result is used to compute fields scattered from ensemb…

physics.optics2020★ 4 cited

Clausius-Mossotti Relation Revisited: Media with Electric and Magnetic Response

Lang Wang, Ilia L. Rasskazov, P. Scott Carney

A reexamination of the Clausius-Mossotti relation in which material with both electric and magnetic responses yields surprising results. Materials with indices near zero and with r…

physics.optics2020★ 58 cited

Geometric descriptions for the polarization for nonparaxial optical fields: a tutorial

Miguel A. Alonso

This tutorial provides an overview of the local description of polarization for nonparaxial light, for which all Cartesian components of the electric field are significant. The pol…

physics.optics2020★ 124 cited

Compressively sampling the optical transmission matrix of a multimode fibre

Shuhui Li, Charles Saunders, Daniel J. Lum +4

Measurement of the optical transmission matrix (TM) of an opaque material is an advanced form of space-variant aberration correction. Beyond imaging, TM-based methods are emerging…

physics.optics2020★ 10 cited

Flowing cryogenic liquid target for terahertz wave generation

Yiwen E, Yuqi Cao, Fang Ling +1

Terahertz wave emission from condensed matter excited by intense laser pulses not only reflects the details in laser-matter interaction but also offers bright terahertz wave source…

physics.optics2020★ 32 cited

Dynamic coherent perfect absorption in nonlinear metasurfaces

Rasoul Alaee, Yaswant Vaddi, Robert W. Boyd

We propose a tunable coherent perfect absorber based on ultrathin nonlinear metasurfaces. The nonlinear metasurface is made of plasmonic nanoantennas coupled to an epsilon-near-zer…

physics.optics2020★ 25 cited

Plasmonic lattice Kerker effect in UV-Vis spectral range

V. S. Gerasimov, A. E. Ershov, R. G. Bikbaev +7

Mostly forsaken, but revived after the emergence of all-dielectric nanophotonics, the Kerker effect can be observed in a variety of nanostructures from high-index constituents with…

physics.optics2020★ 1 cited

Cavity optomechanical sensing in the nonlinear saturation limit

Usman A. Javid, Steven D. Rogers, Austin Graf +1

Photonic sensors based upon high-quality optical microcavities have found a wide variety of applications ranging from inertial sensing, electro- and magnetometry to chemical and bi…

physics.optics2020★ 20 cited

Rapid infrared spectroscopic nano-imaging with nano-FTIR holography

Martin Schnell, Monika Goikoetxea, Iban Amenabar +2

Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM), and its derivate, Fourier transform infrared nanospectroscopy (nano-FTIR) are emerging techniques for infrared (IR)…

physics.optics2020★ 10 cited

Terahertz Nonlinear Index Extraction via Full-Phase Analysis

Kareem J. Garriga Francis, Mervin Lim Pac Chong, Yiwen E +1

We experimentally show the spectrally averaged nonlinear refractive index and absorption coefficient for liquid water, water vapor, α-pinene, and Si using a full-phase analysis in…

physics.optics2020★ 29 cited

Broadband Terahertz Wave Emission from Liquid Metal

Yuqi Cao, Yiwen E, Pingjie Huang +1

Metals have been studied as terahertz sources for decades. Recent research has shown the potential of metals in generating extremely high THz pulse energy excited by intense laser…

physics.optics2020★ 10 cited

An intriguing branching of the maximum position of the absorption cross section in Mie theory explained

Ilia L. Rasskazov, P. Scott Carney, Alexander Moroz

A potential control over the position of maxima of scattering and absorption cross-sections can be exploited to better tailor nanoparticles for specific light-matter interaction ap…

physics.optics2020★ 86 cited

Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Responses of Layered Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials at Visible Frequencies

Sisira Suresh, Orad Reshef, M. Zahirul Alam +3

Optical materials with vanishing dielectric permittivity, known as epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials, have been shown to possess enhanced nonlinear optical responses in their ENZ r…

physics.optics2020★ 147 cited

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…

physics.optics2020★ 460 cited

Ultra-high-Q resonances in plasmonic metasurfaces

M. Saad Bin-Alam, Orad Reshef, Yaryna Mamchur +8

Plasmonic nanostructures hold promise for the realization of ultra-thin sub-wavelength devices, reducing power operating thresholds and enabling nonlinear optical functionality in…

physics.optics2020★ 66 cited

The critical role of shell in enhanced fluorescence of metal-dielectric core-shell nanoparticles

Song Sun, Ilia L. Rasskazov, P. Scott Carney +2

Large scale simulations are performed by means of the transfer-matrix method to reveal optimal conditions for metal-dielectric core-shell particles to induce the largest fluorescen…