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Universal Routing of Light via Optical Thermodynamics
Hediyeh M. Dinani, Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Abraham M. Berman Bradley +6
Understanding and exploiting the dynamics of complex nonlinear systems is nowadays at the core of a broad range of scientific and technological endeavors. Within the optical domain…
Observation of Joule-Thomson photon-gas expansion
Marco S. Kirsch, Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Richard Altenkirch +9
In recent years, a self-consistent optical thermodynamic framework has emerged that offers a systematic methodology to understand, harness and exploit the complex collective dynami…
Engineering Non-Hermitian Quantum Evolution Using a Hermitian Bath Environment
Mahmoud A. Selim, Max Ehrhardt, Yuqiang Ding +9
Engineering quantum bath networks through non-Hermitian subsystem Hamiltonians has recently emerged as a promising strategy for qubit cooling, state stabilization, and fault-tolera…
Selective Filtering of Photonic Quantum Entanglement via Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry
Mahmoud A. Selim, Max Ehrhardt, Yuqiang Ding +8
Entanglement is a key resource for quantum computing, sensing, and communication, however it is highly susceptible to decoherence. To address this, quantum optics has explored filt…
Roadmap on Neuromorphic Photonics
Daniel Brunner, Bhavin J. Shastri, Mohammed A. Al Qadasi +147
This roadmap consolidates recent advances while exploring emerging applications, reflecting the remarkable diversity of hardware platforms, neuromorphic concepts, and implementatio…
Nature of Optical Thermodynamic Pressure Exerted in Highly Multimoded Nonlinear Systems
Huizhong Ren, Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Fan O. Wu +4
The theory of optical thermodynamics provides a comprehensive framework that enables a self-consistent description of the intricate dynamics of nonlinear multimoded photonic system…
Rigorous analysis of optical forces in dielectric structures based on the Minkowski-Helmholtz formula
Huizhong Ren, Haokun Luo, Mahmoud A. Selim +4
Optical forces in dielectric structures are typically analyzed by utilizing either the Maxwell stress tensor or energy-based methods from which they can be derived by means of the…
Dalton's law of partial optical thermodynamic pressures in highly multimoded nonlinear photonic systems
Huizhong Ren, Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Fan O. Wu +3
We show that in highly multimoded nonlinear photonic systems, the optical thermodynamic pressures emerging from different species of the optical field obey Dalton's law of partial…
Guiding Trojan light beams via Lagrange points
Haokun Luo, Yunxuan Wei, Fan O. Wu +3
The guided transmission of optical waves is critical for light-based applications in modern communication, information processing, and energy generation systems. Traditionally, gui…
Thermalization of the Ablowitz-Ladik lattice in the presence of non-integrable perturbations
Mahmoud A. Selim, Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Fan O. Wu +4
We investigate the statistical mechanics of the photonic Ablowitz-Ladik lattice, the integrable version of the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation. In this regard, we demonstra…
Coherence properties of light in highly multimoded nonlinear parabolic fibers under optical equilibrium conditions
Mahmoud A. Selim, Fan O. Wu, Georgios G. Pyrialakos +2
We study the coherence characteristics of light propagating in nonlinear graded-index multimode fibers after attaining optical thermal equilibrium conditions. The role of optical t…
Complex Skin Modes in Non-Hermitian Coupled Laser Arrays
Yuzhou G. N. Liu, Yunxuan Wei, Omid Hemmatyar +4
From biological ecosystems to spin glasses, connectivity plays a crucial role in determining the function, dynamics, and resiliency of a network. In the realm of non-Hermitian phys…
Observation of Chiral State Transfer Without Encircling an Exceptional Point
Hadiseh Nasari, Gisela Lopez-Galmiche, Helena E. Lopez-Aviles +7
The adiabatic theorem, a corollary of the Schrödinger equation, manifests itself in a profoundly different way in non-Hermitian arrangements, resulting in counterintuitive state tr…
Direct Modulation of Electrically Pumped Coupled Microring Lasers
Chi Xu, William E. Hayenga, Demetrios N. Christodoulides +2
We demonstrate how the presence of gain-loss contrast between two coupled identical resonators can be used as a new degree of freedom to enhance the modulation frequency response o…
Parity-time symmetric optical neural networks
Haoqin Deng, Mercedeh Khajavikhan
Optical neural networks (ONNs), implemented on an array of cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs), have recently been proposed as a possible replacement for conventional deep…
Majorana Bound State Cavities
Babak Bahari, Jae-Hyuck Choi, Yuzhou G. N. Liu +1
Cavities play a fundamental role in optical physics by providing spatio-temporal confinement of energy that facilitates light-matter interactions. They are routinely utilized in a…
Gain Induced Topological Response via Tailored Long-range Interactions
Yuzhou G. N. Liu, Pawel S. Jung, Midya Parto +2
The ability to tailor the hopping interactions between the constituent elements of a physical system could enable the observation of unusual phenomena that are otherwise inaccessib…
Topological Modes in a Laser Cavity through Exceptional State Transfer
A. Schumer, Y. G. N. Liu, J. Leshin +8
Shaping the light emission characteristics of laser systems is of great importance in various areas of science and technology. In a typical lasing arrangement, the spatial profile…
Bimorphic Floquet Topological Insulators
Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Julius Beck, Matthias Heinrich +5
Topological theories have established a new set of rules that govern the transport properties in a wide variety of wave-mechanical settings. In a marked departure from the establis…
A thermodynamic description of the near- and far-field intensity patterns emerging from multimode nonlinear waveguide arrays
Mahmoud A. Selim, Fan O. Wu, Huizhong Ren +2
Nonlinear highly multimode photonic systems are ubiquitous in optics. Yet, the sheer complexity arising from the action of nonlinearity in multimode environments has posed theoreti…
Optical Thouless pumping transport and nonlinear switching in a topological low-dimensional discrete nematic liquid crystal array
Pawel S. Jung, Midya Parto, Georgios G. Pyrialakos +6
We theoretically investigate a Thouless pumping scheme in the 1D topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model for single and multiple band-gaps systems when implemented in a discre…
Room temperature electrically pumped topological insulator lasers
Jae-Hyuck Choi, William E. Hayenga, Yuzhou G. N. Liu +4
Topological insulator lasers (TILs) are a recently introduced family of lasing arrays in which phase locking is achieved through synthetic gauge fields. These single frequency ligh…
Engineering Interaction Dynamics in Active Resonant Photonic Structures
Yuzhou G. N. Liu, Omid Hemmatyar, Absar U. Hassan +4
The collective response of a system is profoundly shaped by the interaction dynamics between its constituent elements. In physics, tailoring these interactions can enable the obser…
Entropic thermodynamics of nonlinear photonic chain networks
Fan O. Wu, Pawel S. Jung, Midya Parto +2
The complex nonlinear behaviors of heavily multimode lightwave structures have been recently the focus of considerable attention. Here we develop an optical thermodynamic approach…