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10 papers

physics.optics2026

Programmable Synthetic Motion at a Time-Varying Interface

A. C Harwood, D. Cielecki, T. V. Raziman +3

Space-time metamaterials that exhibit synthetic motion promise arbitrary control over the momentum, frequency and energy of scattered light, but realising the required space-time m…

physics.optics2025

Integration of 2D Materials in Radial van der Waals Heterostructure Metasurfaces

Connor Heimig, Jonas Biechteler, Cristina Cruciano +12

Two-dimensional semiconductors, such as monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC), exhibit strong excitonic transitions at room temperature and offer a unique platform for…

physics.optics2025

Ultrafast dynamics of coherent exciton-polaritons in van der Waals semiconductor metasurfaces

Luca Sortino, Armando Genco, Cristina Cruciano +14

Enabling coherent light-matter interactions is a critical step toward next-generation quantum technologies. However, achieving this under ambient temperature conditions remains cha…

physics.optics2025

Chiral Nonlinear Polaritonics with van der Waals Metasurfaces

Connor Heimig, Alexander A. Antonov, Dmytro Gryb +10

In the strong-coupling regime, the interaction between light and matter reaches a hybridization state where the photonic and material components are inseparably linked. Using tailo…

physics.optics2025

A comparative analysis of plasmonic and dielectric metasurface sensing platforms powered by bound states in the continuum

Tao Jiang, Angana Bhattacharya, Martin Barkey +5

Nanophotonic platforms based on surface-enhanced infrared absorbance spectroscopy (SEIRAS) have emerged as an effective tool for molecular detection. Sensitive nanophotonic sensors…

physics.optics2025

Strong coupling and interfering resonances in isolated van der Waals nanoresonators

Qi Ding, Swain Ashutosh, Luca Sortino +7

The study of strong light-matter interaction in van der Waals materials is at the forefront of current research in physics and chemistry, and it can be enhanced dramatically by emp…