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physics.optics2026

Nonlocal-nonlinear phonon polaritons

Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Line Jelver, Alexander Paarmann +1

When light is confined to deeply subwavelength volumes, optical responses can become nonlocal. Yet how nonlocality reshapes nonlinear light-matter interactions remains largely unex…

physics.optics2026

In-plane vector-field imaging of propagating surface phonon polaritons

Richarda Niemann, Dorothée S. Mader, Gonzalo Alvarez-Pérez +9

Polariton interferometry through optical near-field microscopy has become a powerful tool in nanophotonics, enabling direct spatial access to the propagation characteristics of str…

physics.optics2026

Ultrafast Nano-Imaging and Optical Control of Hyperbolic Phonon Polaritons at hBN/WS Heterojunctions

Kazuki Kamada, Keisuke Shinokita, Fanyu Zeng +7

Manipulating nanoscale light-matter interactions on ultrafast time scales is indispensable for future polaritonic devices. Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) in van der Waals mat…

physics.optics2025

Spectral tuning of hyperbolic shear polaritons in monoclinic gallium oxide via isotopic substitution

Giulia Carini, Mohit Pradhan, Elena Gelzinyte +26

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons - hybridized modes arising from the ultrastrong coupling of infrared light to strongly anisotropic lattice vibrations in uniaxial or biaxial polar crys…

physics.optics2025

Ultraconfined THz Phonon Polaritons in Hafnium Dichalcogenides

R. A. Kowalski, N. S. Mueller, G. Álvarez-Pérez +18

The confinement of electromagnetic radiation to subwavelength scales relies on strong light-matter interactions. In the infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) spectral ranges, phonon po…

physics.optics2025

Visualization of topological shear polaritons in gypsum thin films

Pablo Díaz-Núñez, Christian Lanza, Ziwei Wang +10

Low symmetry crystals have recently emerged as a platform for exploring novel light-matter interactions in the form of hyperbolic shear polaritons. These excitations exhibit unique…