4 papers
Designing interferometers within a single optical beam
Bereneice Sephton, Rakhi Thomas, Carlo Schiano +8
Interferometry provides highly sensitive access to optical phase and is central to much of modern metrology and phase imaging methods. Conventional implementations, however, often…
Programmable non-Hermitian photonic quantum walks via dichroic metasurfaces
Paola Savarese, Sarvesh Bansal, Maria Gorizia Ammendola +6
The evolution of a closed quantum system is described by a unitary operator generated by a Hermitian Hamiltonian. However, when certain degrees of freedom are coupled to an environ…
Large-scale free-space photonic circuits in two dimensions
Maria Gorizia Ammendola, Francesco Di Colandrea, Lorenzo Marrucci +1
Photonic circuits, engineered to couple optical modes according to a specific map, serve as processors for classical and quantum light. The number of components typically scales wi…
Electrically tunable liquid-crystal metasurfaces with patterned birefringence and dichroism
Paola Savarese, Sarvesh Bansal, Maria Gorizia Ammendola +7
Light propagation through artificially patterned anisotropic materials, such as dielectric metasurfaces, enables precise control of the spatio-vectorial properties of optical field…