activity
20242026
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13 papers

physics.optics2026

Hopping of nanoparticles in optical tweezers governed by Mie resonances

Ivan Toftul, Libang Mao, Sivacarendran Balendhran +3

Optical tweezers have become a standard tool for manipulating microscale and nanoscale particles and probing their local environments. However, complex particle dynamics under opti…

physics.optics2026

Nonlinear chiral response governed by meta-atom rotation

Dhruv Hariharan, Pavel Tonkaev, Felix Ulrich Brikh +5

Chiral photonics provides powerful routes for controlling the light handedness, yet nonlinear chiral responses are typically associated with intricate three-dimensional systems. He…

physics.optics2025

Light matter interaction in van der Waals heterostructures with Mie voids

Zhuoyuan Lu, Kirill Koshelev, Pavel Tonkaev +5

Recently introduced concept of Mie voids allows to enhance the field localization inside air cavities embedded in high-index materials. Mie voids provide an alternative approach to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

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.optics2025

Nonlinear chiral light generation from resonant metasurfaces

Fangxing Lai, Jun Yin, Ivan Toftul +6

Chiral nonlinear response has been explored for decades due to its extreme sensitivity to molecular and structural dissymmetry. Conventional approaches often require bulky systems…

physics.optics2025

Nonlinear chiral response from linearly achiral membrane metasurfaces

Pavel Tonkaev, Yeqi Zhuang, Donghwee Kim +9

Chiral photonics aims to control and engineer light handedness for many applications in optical communications, biological and chemical sensing, and quantum technologies. While tra…