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20242026
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9 papers

quant-ph2026

Vacuum Fluctuation-Induced State Switching in Degenerate Optical Parametric Oscillators

Yihao Huang, Seou Choi, Rom Simovitch +5

Bistable driven-dissipative systems near bifurcations can exhibit noise-activated switching between steady states. Here, we investigate how quantum vacuum fluctuations induce such…

cs.RO2026

A Framework for Closed-Loop Robotic Assembly, Alignment and Self-Recovery of Precision Optical Systems

Seou Choi, Sachin Vaidya, Caio Silva +4

Robotic automation has transformed scientific workflows in domains such as chemistry and materials science, yet free-space optics, which is a high precision domain, remains largely…

physics.optics2026

Wavefront Engineering for Scintillation-Based Imaging

Joshua Chen, Sachin Vaidya, Simo Pajovic +7

Recent research in nanophotonics for scintillation-based imaging has demonstrated promising improvements in scintillator performance. In parallel, advances in nanophotonics have en…

physics.ins-det2025

End-to-end design of multicolor scintillators for enhanced energy resolution in X-ray imaging

Seokhwan Min, Seou Choi, Simo Pajovic +5

Scintillators have been widely used in X-ray imaging due to their ability to convert high-energy radiation into visible light, making them essential for applications such as medica…

physics.optics2025

Nanophotonic thermal management in X-ray tubes

Simo Pajovic, Charles Roques-Carmes, Seou Choi +5

In X-ray tubes, more than 99% of the kilowatts of power supplied to generate X-rays via bremsstrahlung are lost in the form of heat generation in the anode. Therefore, thermal mana…

physics.optics2025

Probing intensity noise in ultrafast pulses using the dispersive Fourier transform augmented by quantum sensitivity analysis

Shiekh Zia Uddin, Sahil Pontula, Jiaxin Liu +4

To reach the next frontier in multimode nonlinear optics, it is crucial to better understand the classical and quantum phenomena of systems with many interacting degrees of freedom…