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physics.optics2026

Volumetric Nanophotonics for Enhanced Scintillation and Remote Light Outcoupling

Simo Pajovic, Marius Jürgensen, Sachin Vaidya +13

Nanophotonic patterning is a promising approach to enhancing light extraction in scintillator materials, with the potential to improve performance in applications such as medical i…

physics.optics2026

Neural network inverse design of nanophotonic scintillators

Nathan Regev, Avner Shultzman, Francis Loignon-Houle +2

Scintillators are materials converting high-energy radiation into optical light, essential in a range of technologies such as medical imaging systems and security scanners. Scintil…

physics.optics2026

Spatiotemporal Electron Microscopy of Phonon Polaritons in MoO3

Harel Nahari, Yaniv Kurman, Raphael Dahan +5

Photon-induced near-field electron microscopy (PINEM) has emerged as a powerful technique for imaging optical excitations with nanometer spatial and sub-picosecond temporal resolut…

physics.optics2026

A scalable platform for nanometer-scale quantum confinement

Christina M. Spaegele, Mehdi Rezaee, Thomas Werkmeister +8

Overcoming the limitations of current nanofabrication techniques to achieve nanoscale feature sizes is essential for achieving new regimes of light-matter interactions at extreme f…

physics.optics2025

Toward Photon-Induced Near-Field Electron Tomography

Tamir Shpiro, Ron Ruimy, Qinghui Yan +4

New techniques for imaging electromagnetic near-fields in nanostructures drive advancements in nanotechnology, optoelectronics, materials science, and biochemistry. Most existing t…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Single-shot pulse retrieval of femtosecond bright squeezed vacuum

Yuval Kern, Ido Nisim, Michael Birk +7

Bright squeezed vacuum (BSV) is an intense quantum state of light with zero mean electric field and huge photon number fluctuations, sufficiently intense to drive extreme nonlinear…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Superluminal Correlations in Ensembles of Optical Phase Singularities

Tomer Bucher, Alexey Gorlach, Arthur Niedermayr +16

Phase singularities are universal features found across diverse wave systems. Their ensembles exhibit distance correlations governing exotic material phases. However, the full corr…

physics.optics2025

Programmable control of the spatiotemporal quantum noise of light

Jamison Sloan, Michael Horodynski, Shiekh Zia Uddin +6

Optoelectronic systems based on multiple modes of light can often exceed the performance of their single-mode counterparts. However, multimode nonlinear interactions often introduc…

physics.optics2025

Controlling X-ray emission with optical nanostructures

Elina Sendonaris, Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera +2

Nonlinear processes lie at the heart of many technologies such as frequency converters and entangled photon sources. Historically, observation and manipulation of these processes,…

physics.optics2025

Realization of a Pre-Sample Photonic-based Free-Electron Modulator in Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopes

Beatrice Matilde Ferrari, Cameron James Richard Duncan, Michael Yannai +16

Spatial and temporal light modulation is a well-established technology that enables dynamic shaping of the phase and amplitude of optical fields, significantly enhancing the resolu…

physics.optics2024

X-Ray-Driven Photon Bunching

Shaul Katznelson, Noam Kasten, Offek Tziperman +13

Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometry is a milestone experiment that transformed our understanding of the nature of light. The concept was demonstrated in 1956 to measure th…

physics.optics2024★ 10 cited

Quantum Nanophotonics with Energetic Particles:X-rays and Free Electrons

Xihang Shi, Wen Wei Lee, Aviv Karnieli +7

Rapid progress in precision nanofabrication and atomic design over the past 50 years has ushered in a succession of transformative eras for molding the generation and flow of light…

physics.optics2023★ 10 cited

Transverse Recoil Imprinted on Free-Electron Radiation

Xihang Shi, Lee Wei Wesley Wong, Sunchao Huang +2

Phenomena of free-electron X-ray radiation are treated almost exclusively with classical electrodynamics, despite the intrinsic interaction being that of quantum electrodynamics. T…

physics.optics2023★ 21 cited

Free-Electron Ramsey-Type Interferometry for Enhanced Amplitude and Phase imaging of Nearfields

Tomer Bucher, Ron Ruimy, Shai Tsesses +4

The complex range of interactions between electrons and electromagnetic fields gave rise to countless scientific and technological advances. A prime example is photon-induced nearf…

physics.optics2023★ 36 cited

Coherently amplified ultrafast imaging using a free-electron interferometer

Tomer Bucher, Harel Nahari, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux +18

Accessing the low-energy non-equilibrium dynamics of materials and their polaritons with simultaneous high spatial and temporal resolution has been a bold frontier of electron micr…

physics.optics2023

Breakdown of effective-medium theory by a photonic spin Hall effect

Shuaijie Yuan, Xinxing Zhou, Yu Chen +6

Effective-medium theory pertains to the theoretical modelling of homogenization, which aims to replace an inhomogeneous structure of subwavelength-scale constituents with a homogen…

physics.optics2023

Free-electron Brewster radiation

Ruoxi Chen, Jialin Chen, Zheng Gong +7

Free-electron radiation offers an enticing route to create light emission at arbitrary spectral regime. However, this type of light emission is generally weak, which is intrinsical…

physics.optics2023★ 133 cited

Roadmap on structured waves

K. Y. Bliokh, E. Karimi, M. J. Padgett +47

Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum, where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane wave.…

physics.optics2022★ 4 cited

Low-velocity-favored transition radiation

Jialin Chen, Ruoxi Chen, Zheng Gong +8

When a charged particle penetrates through an optical interface, photon emissions emerge - a phenomenon known as transition radiation. Being paramount to fundamental physics, trans…

physics.optics2022★ 129 cited

High harmonic generation driven by quantum light

Alexey Gorlach, Matan Even Tzur, Michael Birk +4

High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extreme nonlinear process where intense pulses of light drive matter to emit high harmonics of the driving frequency, reaching the extreme ultr…

physics.optics2022★ 86 cited

Photon-statistics force in ultrafast electron dynamics

Matan Even Tzur, Michael Birk, Alexey Gorlach +3

In strong-field physics and attosecond science, intense light induces ultrafast electron dynamics. Such ultrafast dynamics of electrons in matter is at the core of phenomena such a…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Free-electron-light interactions in nanophotonics

Charles Roques-Carmes, Steven E. Kooi, Yi Yang +7

When impinging on optical structures or passing in their vicinity, free electrons can spontaneously emit electromagnetic radiation, a phenomenon generally known as cathodoluminesce…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Ultrafast Transverse Modulation of Free Electrons by Interaction with Shaped Optical Fields

I. Madan, V. Leccese, A. Mazur +11

Spatio-temporal shaping of electron beams is a bold frontier in electron microscopy, enabling new routes toward spatial-resolution enhancement, selective probing, low-dose imaging…

physics.optics2022★ 61 cited

Tunable photon-induced spatial modulation of free electrons

Shai Tsesses, Raphael Dahan, Kangpeng Wang +3

Spatial modulation of electron beams is an essential tool for various applications such as nanolithography and imaging, yet its implementations are severely limited and inherently…