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physics.optics2025★ 7 cited

Profile control of fibre-based micro-mirrors using adaptive laser shooting with imaging

Shaobo Gao, Vishnu Kavungal, Shuma Oya +5

Fibre Fabry-Perot cavities (FFPCs) are used in various studies in cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) and quantum technologies due to the cavity's small mode volume and compact i…

physics.optics2025

Exceptional-point-controlled mode interaction in three-dimensional microcavities represented by generalized Husimi functions

Tom Rodemund, Shilong Li, Síle Nic Chormaic +1

Non-Hermitian photonics has attracted significant interest and influences several key areas such as optical metamaterials, laser physics, and nonlinear optics. While non-Hermitian…

physics.optics2024★ 9 cited

Negative refraction of light in an atomic medium

L. Ruks, K. E. Ballantine, J. Ruostekoski

The quest to manipulate light propagation in ways not possible with natural media has driven the development of artificially structured metamaterials. One of the most striking effe…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

Modeling Photothermal Effects in High Power Optical Resonators used for Coherent Levitation

Chenyue Gu, Jiayi Qin, Giovanni Guccione +3

Radiation pressure can be used to enable optomechanical control and manipulation of the quantum state of a mechanical oscillator. Optomechanical interaction can also be mediated by…

physics.optics2023★ 13 cited

Structural characterization of thin-walled microbubble cavities

Mohammed Zia Jalaludeen, Shilong Li, Ke Tian +2

Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microbubble cavities are a versatile optofluidic sensing platform owing to their hollow core geometry. To increase the light-matter interaction and, t…

physics.optics2022★ 28 cited

Enabling self-induced back-action trapping of gold nanoparticles in metamaterial plasmonic tweezers

Theodoros D. Bouloumis, Domna G. Kotsifaki, Sile Nic Chormaic

The pursuit for efficient nanoparticle trapping with low powers has led to optical tweezers technology moving from the conventional free-space configuration to advanced plasmonic t…

physics.optics2022★ 4 cited

Cancellation of photothermally induced instability in an optical resonator

Jiayi Qin, Giovanni Guccione, Jinyong Ma +4

Optical systems are often subject to parametric instability caused by the delayed response of the optical field to the system dynamics. In some cases, parasitic photothermal effect…

physics.optics2022★ 79 cited

Experimental Observation of Berry Phases in Optical Moebius-strip Microcavities

Jiawei Wang, Sreeramulu Valligatla, Yin Yin +9

The Moebius strip, as a fascinating loop structure with one-sided topology, provides a rich playground for manipulating the non-trivial topological behavior of spinning particles,…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Measurement of absolute radius, refractive index and dispersion of a long cylinder

Mathieu Couillard, Pablo Bianucci

Long cylinders, such as optical fibers, are some of the most widely used photonic devices. The radius and refractive index of these fibers are therefore fundamentally important par…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Optical force between two coupled identical parallel optical nanofibers

Fam Le Kien, Sile Nic Chormaic, Thomas Busch

We study the optical force between two coupled parallel identical nanofibers using the rigorous array mode theory. We show that the forces of the even array modes are attractive, w…

physics.optics2021★ 4 cited

Moiré-localized interlayer exciton wavefunctions captured by imaging its electron and hole constituents

Ouri Karni, Elyse Barré, Vivek Pareek +21

Interlayer excitons (ILXs) - electron-hole pairs bound across two atomically thin layered semiconductors - have emerged as attractive platforms to study exciton condensation, singl…

physics.optics2021

Efficient Optical Manipulation of Janus Particles by Optical Nanofibers

Cindy Esporlas, Georgiy Tkachenko, Isha Sanskriti +2

Small composite objects, known as Janus particles, drive sustained scientific interest primarily targeted at biomedical applications, where such objects act as micro- or nanoscale…

physics.optics2021

Proposal of Bragg Diffraction Imaging on Protein Crystals with Precession-Electron Annular-Bright-Field Microscopy

Tsumoru Shintake

In this theoretical study, the author firstly discusses the wave interference of Bragg diffraction inside 3D crystal, followed by quantum mechanical interpretation on the diffracti…

physics.optics2020★ 41 cited

Dynamic Multiple Nanoparticle Trapping using Metamaterial Plasmonic Tweezers

Domna G. Kotsifaki, Viet Giang Truong, Sile Nic Chormaic

Optical manipulation has attracted remarkable interest owing to its versatile and non-invasive nature. However, conventional optical trapping remains inefficient for the nanoscopic…

physics.optics2020★ 11 cited

Coupling between guided modes of two parallel nanofibers

Fam Le Kien, Lewis Ruks, Sile Nic Chormaic +1

We study the coupling between the fundamental guided modes of two identical parallel nanofibers analytically and numerically. We calculate the coefficients of directional coupling,…

physics.optics2020

Plasmonic tweezers based on connected nanoring apertures

Theodoros D. Bouloumis, Domna G. Kotsifaki, Xue Han +2

The manipulation of microparticles using optical forces has led to many applications in the life and physical sciences. To extend optical trapping towards the nano-regime, in this…

physics.optics2020★ 47 cited

Visualization of two-dimensional transition dipole moment texture in momentum space using high-harmonic generation spectroscopy

K. Uchida, V. Pareek, K. Nagai +2

Highly nonlinear optical phenomena can provide access to properties of electronic systems which are otherwise difficult to access through conventional linear optical spectroscopies…

physics.optics2020★ 84 cited

Fano-Resonant, Asymmetric, Metamaterial-Assisted Tweezers for Single Nanoparticle Trapping

Domna G. Kotsifaki, Viet Giang Truong, Sile Nic Chormaic

Plasmonic nanostructures can overcome Abbe's diffraction limit to generate strong gradient fields, enabling efficient optical trapping of nano-sized particles. However, it remains…

physics.optics2020★ 36 cited

Fabrication of Optical Nanofibre-Based Cavities using Focussed Ion-Beam Milling -- A Review

Priscila Romagnoli, Maki Maeda, Jonathan M. Ward +2

Nanofibre-based optical cavities are particularly useful for quantum optics application, such as the development of integrated single-photon sources, and for studying fundamental l…

physics.optics2019★ 16 cited

Enhanced Directional Coupling of Light with a Whispering Gallery Microcavity

Fuchuan Lei, Georgiy Tkachenko, Xuefeng Jiang +3

Directional coupling of light in nanophotonic circuits has recently attracted increasing interest, with numerous experimental realizations based on broken rotational or mirror symm…

physics.optics2019★ 20 cited

Polarization-Controlled Cavity Input-Output Relations

Fuchuan Lei, Jonathan M. Ward, Priscila Romagnoli +1

Cavity input-output relations (CIORs) describe a universal formalism relating each of the far-field amplitudes outside the cavity to the internal cavity fields. Conventionally, the…

physics.optics2019★ 14 cited

Polarisation control for optical nanofibres by imaging through a single lens

Georgiy Tkachenko, Fuchuan Lei, Síle Nic Chormaic

We present a simple method for controlling the polarisation state of light at the waist of a single-mode optical nanofibre. The method consists of complete polarisation compensatio…

physics.optics2019★ 142 cited

Plasmonic Optical Tweezers based on Nanostructures: fundamentals, advances and prospects

Domna G. Kotsifaki, Síle Nic Chormaic

The ability of metallic nanostructures to confine light at the sub-wavelength scale enables new perspectives and opportunities in the field of nanotechnology. Making use of this un…

physics.optics2019★ 25 cited

Complete polarization control for a nanofiber waveguide using directional coupling

Fuchuan Lei, Georgiy Tkachenko, Jonathan M. Ward +1

Optical nanofiber waveguides are widely used for near-field delivery and measurement of light. Despite their versatility and efficiency, nanofibers have a critical drawback - their…