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20192026
most citedSpontaneous photon-pair generation at the nanoscale

168 citations · 253 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

physics.optics2026

Lasing Mode Control in ZnO Nanowires Coupled to TiO2 Nanopillars

Daniel Repp, Francesco Vitale, Raja Hoffmann +4

Nanowire lasers based on spectrally broad gain materials typically exhibit multimode emission, which limits their utility in applications requiring precisely defined spectral chara…

physics.optics2026

Spatiotemporal Metasurface for Ultrafast All-Optical Wavefront Shaping

Mert Akturk, Giulia Crotti, Andrea Schirato +6

Optical metasurfaces have established themselves as exceptional nanophotonic platforms to control the properties of light at subwavelength scales. By properly designing the geometr…

physics.optics2026

All-optical control of nonlinear emission from resonant metasurfaces

Ziwei Yang, Lei Xu, Gabriel Sanderson +11

Nonlinear optics underpins a broad range of photonic technologies, from classical and quantum light sources to emerging nonlinear photonic neural networks. Yet, conventional nonlin…

physics.optics2026

Second-harmonic generation for enhancing the performance of diffractive neural networks

Marie Braasch, Anna Kartashova, Elena Goi +3

Diffractive neural networks (DNNs) are an emerging approach for the realization of photonic artificial intelligence, especially due to their suitability for machine-vision applicat…

physics.optics2026

Enhancement of Circular Dichroism in Chiral Dielectric Metasurfaces by Ion Beam Irradiation

Anna Fitriana, Katsuya Tanaka, Lukas Raam Jaeger +4

Resonant chiral dielectric metasurfaces can support circular dichroism exceeding that of natural materials, but their small dissipative losses simultaneously limit the maximization…

physics.optics2026

Spatio-spectrally tailored multimode metasurface lasers in the visible range

Ayesheh Bashiri, Aleksandr Vaskin, Katsuya Tanaka +3

Spectrally engineered multifrequency nanolasers are highly desirable for on-chip photonics, multiplexed biosensing, and display technologies; yet, achieving them within a single co…

physics.optics2025

Inverse-Designed Superchiral Hot Spot in Dielectric Meta-Cavity Toward Ultra-Compact Enantioselective Detection

Anastasia Romashkina, Omer Yesilurt, Vahagn Mkhitaryan +8

Chiral nanophotonic structures have garnered considerable interest in recent years due to their potential to enhance the efficacy of chirality-sensitive biomolecular detection. Des…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Polarization Dependent Enhancement of Magnetic Dipolar Emission with Silicon Nanodimers

Marijn Rikers, Ayesheh Bashiri, Aleksandr Vaskin +5

Eu(TTA)3 complexes are used as an emission source in the presence of high refractive index dielectric nanostructures. These nanostructures support Mie-type resonances that modify t…

physics.optics2025

Tunable Resonant Metasurfaces Empowered by Atomically Thin Semiconductors

Alexey Ustinov, Ángela Barreda, Duk-Yong Choi +4

Nanophotonics has recently gained new momentum with the emergence of a novel class of nanophotonic systems consisting of resonant dielectric nanostructures integrated with single o…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Valley-dependent emission patterns enabled by plasmonic nanoantennas

Tobias Bucher, Jingshi Yan, Jan Sperrhake +12

Selective control over the emission pattern of valley-polarized excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides is crucial for developing novel valleytronic, quantum informa…

physics.optics2025

Holographic lasing with dielectric metasurfaces

Ayesheh Bashiri, Aleksandr Vaskin, Muyi Yang +4

Light-emitting metasurfaces provide a compact, integrated solution for simultaneous light generation and beam shaping, making them a promising candidate for advanced photonic appli…

physics.optics2025

Role of Coherence in Polarization Response of Hybrid Monolayer MoS-Gold Nanoparticle Systems

Laura Valencia Molina, Zlata Fedorova, Angela Barreda +12

Monolayers of transition metal dichacogenides show strong second-order nonlinearity and symmetry-driven selection rules from their three-fold lattice symmetry. This process resembl…

physics.optics2025

Inverse Microparticle Design for Enhanced Optical Trapping and Detection Efficiency in All Six Degrees of Freedom

Moosung Lee, Benjamin A. Stickler, Thomas Pertsch +1

Achieving quantum-limited motional control of optically trapped particles beyond the sub-micrometer scale is an outstanding problem in levitated optomechanics. A key obstacle is so…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Broadband bright biphotons from periodically poled triple-resonance metasurface

Jihua Zhang, Chaoxin Shi, Jinyong Ma +5

Biphotons from spontaneous parametric down conversion with broad bandwidth are highly wanted in many quantum technologies. However, achieving broad bandwidth in both frequency and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Intrinsically chiral exciton polaritons in an atomically-thin semiconductor

Matthias J. Wurdack, Ivan Iorsh, Sarka Vavreckova +15

Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) have emerged as a versatile tool for enhancing light-matter interactions by strongly confining light fields. Chiral BICs are photonic…

physics.optics2024

Fabrication of low-loss lithium niobate on insulator waveguides on the wafer scale

Mohammadreza Younesi, Thomas Kasebier, Ilia Elmanov +8

We report on the wafer scale fabrication of single mode low-loss lithium niobate on insulator waveguides utilizing a chemically amplified resist and an optimized dry etching method…

physics.optics2024

Optical characterization of size- and substrate-dependent performance of ultraviolet hybrid plasmonic nanowire lasers

Francesco Vitale, Stephen A. Church, Daniel Repp +10

Nanowire-based plasmonic lasers are now established as nano-sources of coherent radiation, appearing as suitable candidates for integration into next-generation nanophotonic circui…

physics.optics2024★ 33 cited

Directionally Tunable Co- and Counter-Propagating Photon Pairs from a Nonlinear Metasurface

Maximilian A. Weissflog, Jinyong Ma, Jihua Zhang +6

Nonlinear metasurfaces have recently been established as a new platform for generating photon pairs via spontaneous parametric down-conversion. While for classical harmonic generat…

quant-ph2024

Entangled Photon-pair Generation in Nonlinear Thin-films

Elkin A. Santos, Maximilian A. Weissflog, Thomas Pertsch +2

We develop a fully vectorial and non-paraxial formalism to describe spontaneous parametric down-conversion in nonlinear thin films. The formalism is capable of treating slabs with…

physics.optics2024★ 10 cited

Influence of resonant plasmonic nanoparticles on optically accessing the valley degree of freedom in 2D semiconductors

Tobias Bucher, Zlata Fedorova, Mostafa Abasifard +10

The valley degree of freedom is one of the most intriguing properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides. Together with the possibility to address this degree of f…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Nonlocal quantum differentiation between polarization objects using entanglement

Vira R. Besaga, Luosha Zhang, Andres Vega +6

For a wide range of applications a fast, non-destructive, remote, and sensitive identification of samples with predefined characteristics is preferred instead of their full charact…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

A Tunable Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Entangled Photon-Pair Source

Maximilian A. Weissflog, Anna Fedotova, Yilin Tang +16

Entangled photon-pair sources are at the core of quantum applications like quantum key distribution, sensing, and imaging. Operation in space-limited and adverse environments such…

physics.optics2023

Ultrafast all-optical second harmonic wavefront shaping

A. Sinelnik, S. H. Lam, F. Coviello +6

Optical communication can be revolutionized by encoding data into the orbital angular momentum of light beams. However, state-of-the-art approaches for dynamic control of complex o…

physics.optics2023★ 27 cited

Nonlinear Nanoresonators for Bell State Generation

Maximilian A. Weissflog, Romain Dezert, Vincent Vinel +6

Entangled photon states are a fundamental resource for optical quantum technologies and investigating the fundamental predictions of quantum mechanics. Up to now such states are ma…