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most citedSpatially entangled photon-pairs from lithium niobate nonlocal metasurfaces

195 citations · 516 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Enhanced Tunable Photon Pair Generation from Nonlinear Metasurface with Guided-Mode Cavity

Tongmiao Fan, Jihua Zhang, Andrey A. Sukhorukov

The ability to generate quantum entangled photon pairs through spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) is playing a pivotal role in many applications in quantum technologies,…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Angle multifunctional dichroism in metasurfaces

Neuton Li, Jihua Zhang, Dragomir Neshev +1

We demonstrate metasurfaces with strong polarization dichroism that depends on the angle of incidence. We present original designs obtained through topology optimization that selec…

physics.optics2024★ 24 cited

Generation of tunable quantum entanglement via nonlinearity symmetry breaking in semiconductor metasurfaces

Jinyong Ma, Tongmiao Fan, Tuomas Haggren +10

Tunable biphoton quantum entanglement generated from nonlinear processes is highly desirable for cutting-edge quantum technologies, yet its tunability is substantially constrained…

physics.optics2024★ 40 cited

Quantum Imaging Using Spatially Entangled Photon Pairs from a Nonlinear Metasurface

Jinyong Ma, Jinliang Ren, Jihua Zhang +4

Nonlinear metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness were recently established as versatile platforms for the enhanced and tailorable generation of entangled photon pairs. The small…

physics.optics2024★ 50 cited

Enhanced infrared vision by nonlinear up-conversion in nonlocal metasurfaces

Laura Valencia Molina, Rocio Camacho Morales, Jihua Zhang +4

The ability to detect and image short-wave infrared light has important applications in surveillance, autonomous navigation, and biological imaging. However, the current infrared i…

physics.optics2024★ 11 cited

Inverse Design of Nonlinear Metasurfaces for Sum Frequency Generation

Neuton Li, Jihua Zhang, Dragomir N. Neshev +1

Sum frequency generation (SFG) has multiple applications, from optical sources to imaging, where efficient conversion requires either long interaction distances or large field conc…

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…

physics.optics2024★ 45 cited

Engineering Quantum Light Sources with Flat Optics

Jinyong Ma, Jihua Zhang, Jake Horder +4

Quantum light sources are essential building blocks for many quantum technologies, enabling secure communication, powerful computing, precise sensing and imaging. Recent advancemen…

physics.optics2024★ 10 cited

Single-shot characterization of photon indistinguishability with dielectric metasurfaces

Jihua Zhang, Jinyong Ma, Neuton Li +2

Characterizing the indistinguishability of photons is a key task in quantum photonics, underpinning the tuning and stabilization of the photon sources and thereby increasing the ac…

physics.optics2023★ 16 cited

Photon pair generation from lithium niobate metasurface with tunable spatial entanglement

Jihua Zhang, Jinyong Ma, Dragomir N. Neshev +1

Two-photon state with spatial entanglement is an essential resource for testing fundamental laws of quantum mechanics and various quantum applications. Its creation typically relie…

physics.optics2023★ 4 cited

Full conversion of unpolarized to fixed-polarization light with topology optimized metasurfaces

Neuton Li, Shaun Lung, Jihua Zhang +2

Conventional polarizers and polarization beam splitters have a fundamental limit of 50\% efficiency when converting unpolarized light into one specific polarization. Here, we overc…

physics.optics2023★ 51 cited

Polarization engineering of entangled photons from a lithium niobate nonlinear metasurface

Jinyong Ma, Jihua Zhang, Yuxin Jiang +4

Complex polarization states of photon pairs are indispensable in various quantum technologies. Conventional methods for preparing desired two-photon polarization states are realize…

physics.optics2022★ 195 cited

Spatially entangled photon-pairs from lithium niobate nonlocal metasurfaces

Jihua Zhang, Jinyong Ma, Matthew Parry +5

Metasurfaces consisting of nano-scale structures are underpinning new physical principles for the creation and shaping of quantum states of light. Multi-photon states that are enta…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Complex structure and characterization of multi-photon split states in integrated circuits

Jihua Zhang, Andrey A. Sukhorukov

Multi-photon split states, where each photon is in a different spatial mode, represent an essential resource for various quantum applications, yet their efficient characterization…

physics.optics2020★ 26 cited

Complex-birefringent dielectric metasurfaces for arbitrary polarization-pair transformations

Shaun Lung, Kai Wang, Khosro Zangeneh Kamali +4

Birefringent materials or nanostructures that introduce phase differences between two linear polarizations underpin the operation of wave plates for polarization control of light.…