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6 papers

physics.optics2026

Intrinsic chirality of dielectric metasurfaces unlocked by resonant chiral modes

Brijesh Kumar, Pavel Tonkaev, Ivan Toftul +7

Controlling optical chirality at the subwavelength scales is essential for many applications of nanophotonic structures in polarization optics, sensing, and nonlinear photonics. Ac…

physics.optics2026

Nonlinear chiral response governed by meta-atom rotation

Dhruv Hariharan, Pavel Tonkaev, Felix Ulrich Brikh +5

Chiral photonics provides powerful routes for controlling the light handedness, yet nonlinear chiral responses are typically associated with intricate three-dimensional systems. He…

physics.optics2025

Light matter interaction in van der Waals heterostructures with Mie voids

Zhuoyuan Lu, Kirill Koshelev, Pavel Tonkaev +5

Recently introduced concept of Mie voids allows to enhance the field localization inside air cavities embedded in high-index materials. Mie voids provide an alternative approach to…

physics.optics2025

Nonlinear chiral response from linearly achiral membrane metasurfaces

Pavel Tonkaev, Yeqi Zhuang, Donghwee Kim +9

Chiral photonics aims to control and engineer light handedness for many applications in optical communications, biological and chemical sensing, and quantum technologies. While tra…

physics.optics2025

Unconventional high-harmonic generation in resonant membrane metasurfaces

Pavel Tonkaev, Felix Richter, Ivan Toftul +5

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has rapidly emerged as a promising platform for creating compact attosecond sources and probing ultrafast electron dynamics. Resonant metas…

physics.optics2025

Monoclinic nonlinear metasurfaces for resonant engineering of polarization states

Ivan Toftul, Dhruv Hariharan, Pavel Tonkaev +3

Polarization is a fundamental property of light that can be engineered and controlled efficiently with optical metasurfaces. Here, we employ chiral metasurfaces with monoclinic lat…