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most citedPhotonics in Flatland: Challenges and Opportunities for Nanophotonics with 2D Semiconductors

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physics.optics2026

In-line Dispersion Control of Femtosecond Laser Pulses by Multilayer Huygens' Metasurfaces

Anna Fitriana, Katsuya Tanaka, Roland Schiek +3

Dispersion is a key limiting factor in ultrafast systems as it modifies the temporal structure of ultrashort optical pulses. Conventional dispersion compensation techniques, though…

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Scalable Cyclic Olefin Copolymer Encapsulation for High Optical Quality of TMD Monolayers

Suprova Das, Md Tarik Hossain, Zlata Fedorova +8

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) combine a direct bandgap, strongly bound excitons, and pronounced second-order optical nonlinearity, which makes them promising ma…

physics.optics2026

Gallium phosphide on insulator for nanophotonics and quantum technologies

Tobias Bucher, Otto Arnold, Muyi Yang +7

Gallium phosphide is a promising material platform for visible and near-infrared photonics and quantum technologies owing to its high refractive index, low optical absorption, and…

physics.optics2026

Direct Wafer Bonding of Crystal-Ion-Sliced GaP Thin Films for Photonic Applications

Hossein Esfandiar, Emanuel Glück, Fabian Ganss +11

Gallium phosphide (GaP) is a promising material platform for integrated photonics because of its high refractive index, broad optical transparency, and strong second-order nonlinea…

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

Sensitive biodetection in flow using metasurface hosting quasi-bound state in the continuum resonances

Sarah L. Walden, Anna Fedotova, Dmitry Pidgayko +4

We have designed optical metasurfaces hosting high-quality factor quasi-bound state in the continuum (q-BIC) resonances for optical biosensing in flow. The unit cell of the metasur…

physics.optics2026

Insights into the Nature of Quantum Emitters in Electron-Irradiated hexagonal Boron Nitride

Mouli Hazra, Anna Rupp, Mohammad N. Mishuk +10

Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as a promising solid-state platform for quantum technology applications. However, a persistent challenge in the field…

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

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

Towards Polarization Routing of Magnetic and Electric Dipolar Emission with Dielectric Metasurfaces

Marijn Rikers, Ayesheh Bashiri, Katsuya Tanaka +4

We investigate the polarization properties of emission associated with the magnetic dipole and electric dipole transitions of europium(III) coupled to an anisotropic dielectric met…

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

Directional and contra-directional coupling in Huygens' metawaveguide microring resonators

M. Saad Bin-Alam, Yunus Denizhan Sirmaci, Alejandro Fernández-Hinestrosa +8

Huygens' metawaveguides represent a transformative concept in photonic device engineering, enabling unprecedented control over light propagation. This study presents, for the first…

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★ 10 cited

Photonics in Flatland: Challenges and Opportunities for Nanophotonics with 2D Semiconductors

Ali Azimi, Julien Barrier, Angela Barreda +45

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are emerging as a versatile platform for nanophotonics, offering unprecedented tunability in optical properties through exciton resonance engine…

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

Hyper-doping of Silicon for Plasmonics in the Telecommunication Range

Jura Rensberg, Angela Barreda, Kevin Wolf +6

We investigate hyper-doping, a promising approach to introduce a high concentration of impurities into silicon beyond its solid solubility limit, for its potential applications in…