13 papers
Metasurfaces for neutral-atom trapping
Chengyu Fang, Minjeong Kim, Mark Saffman +2
Trapped neutral atoms are one of the leading platforms for quantum information technologies, in particular for quantum computing, but scaling them to array sizes needed for utility…
Material selection for mid-infrared thin-film coatings and windows
Jin-Woo Cho, Tanuj Kumar, Hongyan Mei +1
We summarized the room-temperature optical properties for infrared-transparent materials, defining transparency windows for two different applications: thin-film coatings (absorpti…
Silicon-on-sapphire metasurfaces generate arrays of dark and bright traps for neutral atoms
Chengyu Fang, Minjeong Kim, Hongyan Mei +10
We demonstrated crystalline silicon-on-sapphire (c-SOS) metasurfaces that convert a Gaussian beam into arrays of complex optical traps, including arrays of optical bottle beams tha…
Anti-reflection coatings for highly anisotropic materials in the mid infrared
Hongyan Mei, Jin-Woo Cho, Jae-Seon Yu +6
We develop and optimize thin anti-reflection coatings (ARCs) for highly anisotropic materials in the mid infrared. Unlike conventional ARCs that assume nearly isotropic refractive…
All-passive upconversion of incoherent near-infrared light at intensities down to 10 W/cm
Rabeeya Hamid, Demeng Feng, Pournima Narayanan +10
Frequency upconversion, which converts low-energy photons into higher-energy ones, typically requires intense coherent illumination to drive nonlinear processes or the use of exter…
Preventing overfitting in infrared ellipsometry using temperature dependence: fused silica as a case study
Shenwei Yin, Jin-Woo Cho, Demeng Feng +6
Fitting oscillator models to variable-angle spectroscopic ellipsometry (VASE) data can lead to non-unique, unphysical results. We demonstrate using temperature-dependent trends to…