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Nonlinear dielectric epsilon near-zero hybrid nanogap antennas
Romain Tirole, Benjamin Tilmann, Leonardo de S. Menezes +3
High-index Mie-resonant dielectric nanostructures provide a new framework to manipulate light at the nanoscale. In particular their local field confinement together with their inhe…
Controlling lasing around Exceptional Points in Coupled Nanolasers
Anna Fischer, T. V. Raziman, Wai Kit Ng +7
Coupled nanolasers are of growing interest for on-chip optical computation and data transmission, which requires an understanding of how lasers interact to form complex systems. Th…
Graph model for multiple scattering in lithium niobate on insulator integrated photonic networks
Xiyue Sissi Wang, Romolo Savo, Andreas Maeder +6
We present a graph-based model for multiple scattering of light in integrated lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) networks, which describes an open network of single-mode integrate…
Near-field imaging of optical nano-cavities in Hyperuniform disordered materials
N. Granchi, M. Lodde, K. Stokkereit +7
Hyperuniform disordered photonic materials have recently been shown to display large, complete photonic band gaps and isotropic optical properties, and are emerging as strong candi…
Van der Waals Materials for Applications in Nanophotonics
Panaiot G. Zotev, Yue Wang, Daniel Andres-Penares +12
Numerous optical phenomena and applications have been enabled by nanophotonic structures. Their current fabrication from high refractive index dielectrics, such as silicon or galli…
Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies
Romain Tirole, Stefano Vezzoli, Emanuele Galiffi +6
The wave nature of light is revealed by diffraction from physical structures. We report a time-domain version of the classic Young's double-slit experiment: a beam of light twice g…
Sensitivity and spectral control of network lasers
Dhruv Saxena, Alexis Arnaudon, Oscar Cipolato +7
Recently, random lasing in complex networks has shown efficient lasing over more than 50 localised modes, promoted by multiple scattering over the underlying graph. If controlled,…
Saturable time-varying mirror based on an ENZ material
Romain Tirole, Emanuele Galiffi, Jakub Dranczewski +9
We report a switchable time-varying mirror, composed of an ITO-Au stack, which can be efficiently modulated in time with over a ten-fold increase in reflectivity, with a change of…
Self-organized lasers of reconfigurable colloidal assemblies
Manish Trivedi, Dhruv Saxena, Wai Kit Ng +2
Biological cells self-organize into living materials that uniquely blend structure with functionality and responsiveness to the environment. The integration of similar life-like fe…
Photonics of Time-Varying Media
Emanuele Galiffi, Romain Tirole, Shixiong Yin +7
Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, thanks to thesynergy between the discovery of novel, highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-n…
Purifying single photon emission from giant shell CdSe/CdS quantum dots at room temperature
Sergii Morozov, Stefano Vezzoli, Alina Myslovska +4
Giant shell CdSe/CdS quantum dots are bright and flexible emitters, with near-unity quantum yield and suppressed blinking, but their single photon purity is reduced by efficient mu…
Template Dissolution Interfacial Patterning of Single Colloids for Nanoelectrochemistry and Nanosensing
Joong Bum Lee, Harriet Walker, Yi Li +7
Deterministic positioning and assembly of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) onto substrates is a core requirement and a promising alternative to top down lithography to create function…
Light in correlated disordered media
Kevin Vynck, Romain Pierrat, Rémi Carminati +5
The optics of correlated disordered media is a fascinating research topic emerging at the interface between the physics of waves in complex media and nanophotonics. Inspired by pho…
Bright single photon emitters with enhanced quantum efficiency in a two-dimensional semiconductor coupled with dielectric nano-antennas
Luca Sortino, Panaiot G. Zotev, Catherine L. Phillips +7
Single photon emitters in atomically-thin semiconductors can be deterministically positioned using strain induced by underlying nano-structures. Here, we couple monolayer WSe t…
Dye stabilization and wavelength tunability in lasing fibers based on DNA
Luana Persano, Adam Szukalski, Michele Gaio +8
Lasers based on biological materials are attracting an increasing interest in view of their use in integrated and transient photonics. DNA as optical biopolymer in combination with…
Protein-based microsphere biolasers fabricated by dehydration
Toan Van Nguyen, Nhat Van Pham, Hanh Hong Mai +4
Biolasers made of biological materials have attracted a great of research attention due to their biocompatibility and biodegradability, which have the potential for biosensors and…
Flexible and tensile microporous polymer fibers for wavelength-tunable random lasing
Van Duong Ta, Dhruv Saxena, Soraya Caixeiro +1
Flexible and tensile wavelength-tunable micrometer-sized random lasers in the form of microporous polymer fiber are demonstrated. The fibers are fabricated by directly drawing from…
How to organize an online conference
Orad Reshef, Igor Aharonovich, Andrea Armani +4
On January 13th 2020, the inaugural Photonics Online Meetup (POM) brought together more than 1100 researchers to discuss the latest advances in photonics. Or rather, it didn't, bec…
Electrical control of single-photon emission in highly-charged individual colloidal quantum dots
Sergii Morozov, Evangelina L. Pensa, Ali Hossain Khan +6
Electron transfer to an individual quantum dot promotes the formation of charged excitons with enhanced recombination pathways and reduced lifetimes. Excitons with only one or two…
Objective-free excitation of quantum emitters with a laser-written micro parabolic mirror
Sergii Morozov, Stefano Vezzoli, Ali Hossain Khan +2
The efficient excitation of quantum sources such as quantum dots or single molecules requires high NA optics which is often a challenge in cryogenics, or in ultrafast optics. Here…
Dielectric nano-antennas for strain engineering in atomically thin two-dimensional semiconductors
Luca Sortino, Matthew Brooks, Panaiot G. Zotev +7
Atomically thin two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) can withstand large levels of strain before their irreversible damage occurs. This unique pro…
Negative refraction in time-varying, strongly-coupled plasmonic antenna-ENZ systems
V. Bruno, C. DeVault, S. Vezzoli +14
Time-varying metasurfaces are emerging as a powerful instrument for the dynamical control of the electromagnetic properties of a propagating wave. Here we demonstrate an efficient…
Nanoscale design of the local density of optical states
Sandro Mignuzzi, Stefano Vezzoli, Simon A. R. Horsley +3
We propose a design concept for tailoring the local density of optical states (LDOS) in dielectric nanostructures, based on the phase distribution of the scattered optical fields i…
A metal-dielectric parabolic antenna to direct single photons
Sergii Morozov, Michele Gaio, Stefan A. Maier +1
Quantum emitters radiate light omni-directionally, making it hard to collect and use the generated photons. Here we propose a 3D metal-dielectric parabolic antenna surrounding an i…