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most citedGiant nonlinear response at the nanoscale driven by bound states in the continuum

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physics.optics2026

Tensor-driven geometric phase in nonlinear AlGaAs metasurfaces

Giorgio Guercio, Andrea Gerini, Kristina Frizyuk +5

Dielectric metasurfaces provide a unique platform for efficient harmonic generation and optical wavefront manipulation at the nanoscale. While several approaches are available for…

physics.optics2025

Electro-optical modulation of light polarization in a nonlocal lithium niobate metasurface

Agostino Di Francescantonio, Alessandra Sabatti, Eleni Prountzou +6

We report the experimental realization of a LiNbO3 metasurface for electro-optic modulation of light polarization in the telecommunication band. High-Q quasi-bound states in the co…

physics.optics2025

Nonlinear Nonlocal Metasurface for Harmonic Generation and Manipulation

Hooman Barati Sedeh, Yuruo Zheng, Jiaren Tan +7

The discovery of second harmonic generation in 1961 marked the birth of nonlinear optics, unlocking a range of applications from frequency conversion to quantum light generation. Y…

physics.optics2025

Chiral high-harmonic generation in metasurfaces

Piyush Jangid, Maria Antonietta Vincenti, Luca Carletti +3

High-harmonic generation (HHG) provides the only source of attosecond pulses -- currently the shortest accessible time intervals, and it is employed as the only table-top source of…

physics.optics2024

Efficient GHz electro-optical modulation with a nonlocal lithium niobate metasurface in the linear and nonlinear regime

Agostino Di Francescantonio, Alessandra Sabatti, Helena Weigand +8

Electro-optical modulation is widely employed for optical signal processing and in laser technology. To date, it is efficiently realized in integrated photonic systems as well as i…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

Inverse Design of an All-Dielectric Nonlinear Polaritonic Metasurface

Simon Stich, Jewel Mohajan, Domenico de Ceglia +7

Nonlinear metasurfaces offer a new paradigm to realize optical nonlinear devices with new and unparalleled behavior compared to nonlinear crystals, due to the interplay between pho…

physics.optics2024★ 13 cited

Resonant Fully dielectric metasurfaces for ultrafast Terahertz pulse generation

Luke Peters, Davide Rocco, Luana Olivieri +11

Metasurfaces represent a new frontier in materials science paving for unprecedented methods of controlling electromagnetic waves, with a range of applications spanning from sensing…

physics.optics2022★ 9 cited

Enhanced five-photon photoluminescence in subwavelength AlGaAs resonators

Anastasiia Zalogina, Pavel Tonkaev, Aditya Tripathi +5

Multiphoton processes of absorption photoluminescence have enabled a wide range of applications including three-dimensional microfabrication, data storage, and biological imaging.…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Meta-Optics with Lithium Niobate

Anna Fedotova, Luca Carletti, Attilio Zilli +8

The rapid development of metasurfaces - 2D ensembles of engineered nanostructures - is presently fostering a steady drive towards the miniaturization of many optical functionalitie…

physics.optics2022

High harmonic generation from a subwavelength dielectric resonator

Anastasiia Zalogina, Luca Carletti, Aditya Tripathi +5

Higher-order optical harmonics entered the realm of nanostructured solids being observed recently in optical gratings and metasurfaces with a subwavelength thickness. Structuring m…

physics.optics2022★ 37 cited

Efficient frequency conversion with geometric phase control in optical metasurfaces

Bernhard Reineke Matsudo, Basudeb Sain, Luca Carletti +5

Metasurfaces have appeared as a versatile platform for miniaturized functional nonlinear optics due to their design freedom in tailoring wavefronts. The key factor that limits its…

physics.optics2021★ 92 cited

Near-unity third-harmonic circular dichroism driven by quasi-BIC in asymmetric silicon metasurfaces

Marco Gandolfi, Andrea Tognazzi, Davide Rocco +2

We use numerical simulations to demonstrate third-harmonic generation with near-unity nonlinear circular dichroism (CD) and high conversion efficiency () i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Tuning the Ultrafast Response of Fano Resonances in Halide Perovskite Nanoparticles

Paolo Franceschini, Luca Carletti, Anatoly P. Pushkarev +12

The full control of the fundamental photophysics of nanosystems at frequencies as high as few THz is key for tunable and ultrafast nano-photonic devices and metamaterials. Here we…

physics.optics2019★ 126 cited

Silicon metasurfaces for third harmonic geometric phase manipulation and multiplexed holography

Bernhard Reineke, Basudeb Sain, Ruizhe Zhao +5

Nonlinear wavefront control is a crucial requirement in realizing nonlinear optical applications with metasurfaces. Numerous aspects of nonlinear frequency conversion and wavefront…

physics.optics2019★ 22 cited

Resonant, broadband and highly efficient optical frequency conversion in semiconductor nanowire gratings at visible and UV wavelengths

M. Scalora, J. Trull, C. Cojocaru +5

Using a hydrodynamic approach we examine bulk- and surface-induced second and third harmonic generation from semiconductor nanowire gratings having a resonant nonlinearity in the a…

physics.optics2018★ 450 cited

Giant nonlinear response at the nanoscale driven by bound states in the continuum

Luca Carletti, Kirill Koshelev, Costantino De Angelis +1

Being motivated by the recent prediction of high- supercavity modes in subwavelength dielectric resonators, we study the second-harmonic generation from isolated subwavelength A…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 29 cited

Evidence for cascaded third harmonic generation in non-centrosymmetric gold nanoantennas

Michele Celebrano, Andrea Locatelli, Lavinia Ghirardini +10

The optimization of nonlinear optical processes at the nanoscale is a crucial step for the development of nanoscale photon sources for quantum-optical networks. The development of…

physics.optics2016★ 253 cited

Monolithic AlGaAs second-harmonic nanoantennas

V. F. Gili, L. Carletti, A. Locatelli +9

We demonstrate monolithic aluminum gallium arsenide (AlGaAs) optical anoantennas. Using a selective oxidation technique, we fabricate such epitaxial semiconductor nanoparticles on…

physics.optics2014★ 1 cited

Stable, highly nonlinear amorphous silicon nanowires with very low nonlinear absorption

Luca Carletti, Christian Grillet, Phillipe Grossec +5

The nonlinear characteristics of hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanowires are experimentally demonstrated. A high nonlinear refractive index, n2=1.19 x 10-17 m2/W, combined with a…