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20172020
most citedGeneralized 4 4 Matrix Formalism for Light Propagation in Anisotropic Stratified Media: Study of Surface Phonon Polaritons in Polar Dielectric Heterostructures

233 citations · 249 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2020

Layer-Resolved Absorption of Light in Arbitrarily Anisotropic Heterostructures

Nikolai Christian Passler, Mathieu Jeannin, Alexander Paarmann

We present a generalized formalism to describe the optical energy flow and spatially resolved absorption in arbitrarily anisotropic layered structures. The algorithm is capable of…

physics.optics2019

Surface Polariton-Like s-Polarized Waveguide Modes in Switchable Dielectric Thin-Films on Polar Crystals

Nikolai Christian Passler, Andreas Heßler, Matthias Wuttig +2

Surface phonon polaritons (SPhP) and surface plasmon polaritons (SPP), evanescent modes supported by media with negative permittivity, are a fundamental building block of nanophoto…

physics.optics201916 cited

Controlling Nanoscale Air-Gaps for Critically Coupled Surface Polaritons by Means of Non-Invasive White-Light Interferometry

Karsten Pufahl, Nikolai Christian Passler, Nicolai B. Grosse +3

We report an experimental method to control large-area air-gaps in the nanometer range for evanescent coupling of light to surface waves such as surface plasmon polaritons or surfa…

physics.optics2018

Strong Coupling of Epsilon-Near-Zero Phonon Polaritons in Polar Dielectric Heterostructures

Nikolai Christian Passler, Christopher R. Gubbin, Thomas Graeme Folland +7

We report the first observation of epsilon near zero (ENZ) phonon polaritons in an ultrathin AlN film fully hybridized with surface phonon polaritons (SPhP) supported by the adjace…

physics.optics2018

Second Harmonic Generation from Phononic Epsilon-Near-Zero Berreman Modes in Ultrathin Polar Crystal Films

Nikolai Christian Passler, Ilya Razdolski, D. Scott Katzer +4

Immense optical field enhancement was predicted to occur for the Berreman mode in ultrathin films at frequencies in the vicinity of epsilon near zero (ENZ). Here, we report the fir…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Second harmonic generation from strongly coupled localized and propagating phonon-polariton modes

Ilya Razdolski, Nikolai Christian Passler, Christopher R. Gubbin +8

We experimentally investigate second harmonic generation from strongly coupled localized and propagative phonon polariton modes in arrays of silicon carbide nanopillars. Our result…