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physics.optics2026

Polar enhancement of optical nonlinearities and domain-driven second harmonic contrast in bismuth telluro-halide van der Waals crystals

Kevin W. C. Kwock, Tenzin Norden, Thomas P. Darlington +11

The BiTeX family of polar van der Waals (vdW) semiconductors offers a unique platform for exploring the interplay between polar crystalline structure and nonlinear optical phenomen…

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence

Samuel L. Moore, Hae Yeon Lee, Nicholas Rivera +15

Atomically layered van der Waals (vdW) materials exhibit remarkable properties, including highly-confined infrared waveguide modes and the capacity for infrared emission in the mon…

physics.optics2024★ 62 cited

Infrared nanosensors of pico- to micro-newton forces

Natalie Fardian-Melamed, Artiom Skripka, Changhwan Lee +9

Mechanical force is an essential feature for many physical and biological processes.1-12 Remote measurement of mechanical signals with high sensitivity and spatial resolution is ne…

physics.optics2023★ 5 cited

Highly tunable room-temperature plexcitons in monolayer WSe2 /gap-plasmon nanocavities

Thomas P. Darlington, Mahfujur Rahaman, Kevin W. C. Kwock +16

The advancement of quantum photonic technologies relies on the ability to precisely control the degrees of freedom of optically active states. Here, we realize real-time, room-temp…

physics.optics2023★ 4 cited

Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in 2D Metal-Chalcogenates

Surendra B. Anantharaman, Jason Lynch, Mariya Aleksich +10

Hybridization of excitons with photons to form hybrid quasiparticles, exciton-polaritons (EPs), has been widely investigated in a range of semiconductor material systems coupled to…

physics.optics2022★ 18 cited

Direct Nano-Imaging of Light-Matter Interactions in Nanoscale Excitonic Emitters

Kiyoung Jo, Emanuele Marino, Jason Lynch +8

Strong light-matter interactions in localized nano-emitters when placed near metallic mirrors have been widely reported via spectroscopic studies in the optical far-field. Here, we…

physics.optics2021

Nanoscale Optical Imaging of 2D Semiconductor Stacking Orders by Exciton-Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation

Kaiyuan Yao, Shuai Zhang, Emanuil Yanev +9

Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a nonlinear optical response arising exclusively from broken inversion symmetry in the electric-dipole limit. Recently, SHG has attracted widesp…