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Collective Blinking of Upconversion Emission in Lanthanide-doped Nanocrystals
Tianzi Ma, Dingxin Huang, Yongjun Meng +6
Fluorescence blinking, often regarded as a limitation for stable emitters, can enable super-resolution localization microscopy and serve as a versatile reporter of the photophysica…
Overcoming noise-agility trade-off in integrated lasers for precision sensing
Di Yu, Yitian Tong, Yu Xia +16
Lasers that combine narrow linewidths with rapid tunability are critical for applications such as coherent optical ranging, distributed fiber-optic sensing, and precision spectrosc…
Bistability in spatiotemporal mode-locking with dynamic multimode gain
Zhijin Xiong, Yuankai Guo, Wei Lin +8
Three-dimensional (3D) dissipative soliton existed in spatiotemporal mode-locked (STML) multimode fiber laser has been demonstrated to be a promising formalism for generating high-…
Practical GHz single-cavity all-fiber dual-comb laser for high-speed spectroscopy
Lin Ling, Wei Lin, Zhaoheng Liang +8
Dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS) with few-GHz tooth spacing that provides the optimal trade-off between spectral resolution and refresh rate is a powerful tool for measuring and analyz…
Defocus-integration Interferometric Scattering Microscopy for Speckle Suppression and Enhancing Nanoparticle Detection on Substrate
Nanfang Jiao, Shupei Lin, Delong Feng +2
Direct optical detection and imaging of single nanoparticles on substrate in wide field underpin vast applications across different research fields. However, the speckles originati…
Passive and Deterministic Controlled-phase Gate for Single-photon Wavepackets Based on Time-reversal Symmetric Photon Transport
Zhaohua Tian, Xue-Wen Chen
We report the construction of a passive, deterministic and near-unity-fidelity controlled--phase gate for single-photon wavepackets with a node comprising a two-level emitter an…
Bright nonblinking photoluminescence with blinking lifetime from a nanocavity-coupled quantum dot
Zhiyuan Wang, Jianwei Tang, Jiahao Han +3
Colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are excellent luminescent nanomaterials for a broad range of optoelectronic applications. Their photoluminescence blinking, however, hind…
Calibrating quantum hydrodynamic model for noble metals in nanoplasmonics
Qiang Zhou, Wancong Li, Zi He +2
Quantum hydrodynamic model (QHDM) has become a versatile and efficient tool for studying plasmonics at the nanoscopic length scale. Yet its application to noble metals has not been…
Quasinormal mode theory for nanoscale electromagnetism with quantum surface responses
Qiang Zhou, Pu Zhang, Xue-Wen Chen
We report a self-consistent quasinormal mode theory for nanometer scale electromagnetism where the possible nonlocal and quantum effects are treated through quantum surface respons…
A general framework of canonical quasinormal mode analysis for extreme nano-optics
Qiang Zhou, Pu Zhang, Xue-Wen Chen
Optical phenomena associated with extremely localized field should be understood with considerations of nonlocal and quantum effects, which pose a hurdle to conceptualize the physi…
Bright Optical Eigenmode with about 1 nm Volume
Wancong Li, Qiang Zhou, Pu Zhang +1
Concentrating optical field in an eigenmode with a tiny volume is vitally important for light-matter interactions at the fundamental level and underpins new technologies. In the pa…
The Truncated Metallo-dielectric Omnidirectional Reflector: Collecting Single Photons in the Fundamental Gaussian Mode with 95% Efficiency
Wancong Li, Luis Morales-Inostroza, Weiwang Xu +4
We propose a novel antenna structure which funnels single photons from a single emitter with unprecedented efficiency into a low-divergence fundamental Gaussian mode. Our device re…
Multiscale Modeling and Analysis for High-fidelity Interferometric Scattering Microscopy
Shupei Lin, Yong He, Hadrien Marc Louis Robert +4
Interferometric scattering microscopy (iSCAT), as an ultrasensitive fluorescence-free imaging modality, has recently gain enormous attention and been rapidly developing from demons…
Single-Molecule Doped Crystalline Nanosheets for Delicate Photophysics Studies and Directional Single-Photon Emitting Devices
Shangming Wei, Penglong Ren, Yong He +2
Single molecules in solids have been considered as an attractive class of solid-state single quantum systems because they can be chemically synthesized at low cost to have stable n…
Towards Simultaneous Observation of Path and Interference of Single Photon in a Modified Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
Fenghua Qi, Zhiyuan Wang, Weiwang Xu +2
Classical wisdom of wave-particle duality says that it is impossible to observe simultaneously the wave and particle nature of microscopic object. Mathematically the principle requ…
Quantum Photonic Node for On-Chip State Transfer
Zhaohua Tian, Pu Zhang, Xue-Wen Chen
Integrated quantum photonics hold the promise to scale up the system size and form an on-chip quantum network with distributed information processing and simulation units. An outst…
On the Emission Pattern of Nanoscopic Emitters in Planar Anisotropic Matrix and Nanoantenna Structures
Pu Zhang, Penglong Ren, Xue-Wen Chen
Single nanoscopic emitters embedded in crystalline matrix have become a valuable resource for emerging nanophotonic and quantum technologies. The generally anisotropic nature of th…
A Single-Emitter Gain Medium for Bright Coherent Radiation from a Plasmonic Nanoresonator
Pu Zhang, Igor Protsenko, Vahid Sandoghdar +1
We theoretically demonstrate the generation and radiation of coherent nanoplasmons powered by a single three-level quantum emitter on a plasmonic nanoresonator. By pumping the thre…
Strong plasmonic enhancement of biexciton emission: controlled coupling of a single quantum dot to a gold nanocone antenna
Korenobu Matsuzaki, Simon Vassant, Hsuan-Wei Liu +8
Multiexcitonic transitions and emission of several photons per excitation comprise a very attractive feature of semiconductor quantum dots for optoelectronics applications. However…
Plasmonic Superradiance of Two Emitters Near Metal Nanorod
Igor Protsenko, Shunping Zhang, Alexander Uskov +2
Quantum emitters, such as q-dots and dye molecules, in the immediate vicinity of plasmonic nanostructures, resonantly excite surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs) under incoherent pump…
Coherent interaction of a metallic structure with a single quantum emitter: from super absorption to cloaking
Xue-Wen Chen, Vahid Sandoghdar, Mario Agio
We provide a general theoretical platform based on quantized radiation in absorptive and inhomogeneous media for investigating the coherent interaction of light with metallic struc…
Spontaneous emission enhancement of a single molecule by a double-sphere nanoantenna across an interface
K. -G. Lee, H. Eghlidi, X-W. Chen +3
We report on two orders of magnitude reduction in the fluorescence lifetime when a single molecule placed in a thin film is surrounded by two gold nanospheres across the film inter…
Metallo-dielectric hybrid antennas for ultrastrong enhancement of spontaneous emission
Xue-Wen Chen, Mario Agio, Vahid Sandoghdar
We devise new optical antennas that reduce the excited-state radiative lifetimes of emitters to the order of 100 femtoseconds while maintaining quantum efficiencies of about 80% at…
99% efficiency in collecting photons from a single emitter
Xue-Wen Chen, Stephan Goetzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar
In Nature Photonics 5, 166 (2011), we reported on a planar dielectric antenna that achieved 96% efficiency in collecting the photons emitted by a single molecule. In that work the…