469 citations · 1.3k across the 10 of their papers we have counts for
12 papers
New horizons in near-zero refractive index photonics and hyperbolic metamaterials
Michaël Lobet, Nathaniel Kinsey, Iñigo Liberal +7
The engineering of the spatial and temporal properties of both the electric permittivity and the refractive index of materials is at the core of photonics. When vanishing to zero,…
Post-2000 Nonlinear Optical Materials and Measurements: Data Tables and Best Practices
Nathalie Vermeulen, Daniel Espinosa, Adam Ball +19
In its 60 years of existence, the field of nonlinear optics has gained momentum especially over the past two decades thanks to major breakthroughs in material science and technolog…
Gallium-doped Zinc Oxide: Nonlinear Reflection and Transmission Measurements and Modeling in the ENZ Region
Adam Ball, Ray Secondo, Benjamin T. Diroll +5
Strong nonlinear materials have been sought after for decades for applications in telecommunications, sensing, and quantum optics. Gallium-doped zinc oxide is a II-VI transparent c…
Fast and slow nonlinearities in ENZ materials
Jacob B. Khurgin, Matteo Clerici, Nathaniel Kinsey
Novel materials, with enhanced light-matter interaction capabilities, play an essential role in achieving the lofty goals of nonlinear optics. Recently, Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) med…
Absorptive loss and band non-parabolicity as a physical origin of large nonlinearity in epsilon-near-zero materials
Ray Secondo, Jacob B. Khurgin, Nathaniel Kinsey
For decades, nonlinear optics has been used to control the frequency and propagation of light in unique ways enabling a wide range of applications such as ultrafast lasing, sub-wav…
Plasmonic Titanium Nitride via Atomic Layer Deposition: A Low-Temperature Route
Dhruv Fomra, Ray Secondo, Kai Ding +4
To integrate plasmonic devices into industry, it is essential to develop scalable and CMOS compatible plasmonic materials. In this work, we report high plasmonic quality titanium n…
Controlling the plasmonic properties of ultrathin TiN films at the atomic level
Deesha Shah, Alessandra Catellani, Harsha Reddy +4
By combining first principles theoretical calculations and experimental optical and structural characterization such as spectroscopic ellipsometry, X-ray spectroscopy, and electron…
Controlling hybrid nonlinearities in transparent conducting oxides via two-colour excitation
M. Clerici, N. Kinsey, C. DeVault +8
Nanophotonics and metamaterials have revolutionised the way we think about optical space (epsilon, mu), enabling us to engineer the refractive index almost at will, to confine ligh…
Enhanced nonlinear refractive index in epsilon-near-zero materials
L. Caspani, R. P. M. Kaipurath, M. Clerici +9
New propagation regimes for light arise from the ability to tune the dielectric permittivity to extremely low values. Here we demonstrate a universal approach based on the low line…
Effective Third-Order Nonlinearities in Metallic Refractory Titanium Nitride Thin Films
Nathaniel Kinsey, Akbar Ali Sayed, Devon Courtwright +7
Nanophotonic devices offer an unprecedented ability to concentrate light into small volumes which can greatly increase nonlinear effects. However, traditional plasmonic materials s…
Epsilon-Near-Zero Al-Doped ZnO for Ultrafast Switching at Telecom Wavelengths: Outpacing the Traditional Amplitude-Bandwidth Trade-Off
N. Kinsey, C. DeVault, J. Kim +3
Transparent conducting oxides have recently gained great attention as CMOS-compatible materials for applications in nanophotonics due to their low optical loss, metal-like behavior…
Ultra-compact modulators based on novel CMOS-compatible plasmonic materials
Viktoriia E. Babicheva, Nathaniel Kinsey, Gururaj V. Naik +3
We propose several planar layouts of ultra-compact plasmonic waveguide modulators that utilize alternative CMOS-compatible materials. The modulation is efficiently achieved by tuni…