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20242026
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7 papers

physics.optics2026

Optical Control of Chirality by Ultrafast Symmetry Breaking in Membrane Metasurfaces

Nikita Glebov, Alena Mamonova, Olesia Pashina +7

Chirality underpins a wide range of light-matter interactions, yet methods for its dynamic control in photonic systems remain limited. Here, we demonstrate ultrafast all-optical co…

physics.optics2026

Metasurface-Enhanced Mid-Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy with Broadband Quantum Cascade Lasers

Ivan Sinev, Alessio Cargioli, Diego Piciocchi +3

Mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy offers unparalleled opportunities in sensing through chemically specific detection of molecular absorption fingerprints. Yet, its practical appli…

physics.optics2026

Nonlinear chiral response governed by meta-atom rotation

Dhruv Hariharan, Pavel Tonkaev, Felix Ulrich Brikh +5

Chiral photonics provides powerful routes for controlling the light handedness, yet nonlinear chiral responses are typically associated with intricate three-dimensional systems. He…

physics.optics2026

Digital nanophotonic biosensing empowered by silicon Mie voids

Daniil Riabov, Abtin Saateh, Wenhong Yang +3

Optical biosensors are indispensable in medical and environmental diagnostics, yet existing approaches are fundamentally limited in their sensitivity due to ensemble-averaged measu…

physics.optics2025

Mid-IR Light Modulators Enabled by Dynamically Tunable Ultra High-Q Silicon Membrane Metasurfaces

Felix Ulrich Brikh, Aleksei Ezerskii, Olesia Pashina +6

Metasurfaces have emerged as a powerful platform to control free-space light at the subwavelength scale, enabling applications in sensing, lasing, nonlinear optics, and quantum pho…

physics.optics2025

Unconventional high-harmonic generation in resonant membrane metasurfaces

Pavel Tonkaev, Felix Richter, Ivan Toftul +5

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has rapidly emerged as a promising platform for creating compact attosecond sources and probing ultrafast electron dynamics. Resonant metas…