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physics.optics2026

Geometric Control of Visible Emitter Creation in Hexagonal Boron Nitride by Oblique Ion Irradiation

Sagar Chowdhury, Bhaveshkumar Kamaliya, Ramachandra Bangari +5

Ion irradiation creates optically active defects in wide-bandgap van der Waals materials, yet most approaches tune defect formation by varying the ion species, energy, or fluence w…

physics.optics2025

Spectral tuning of hyperbolic shear polaritons in monoclinic gallium oxide via isotopic substitution

Giulia Carini, Mohit Pradhan, Elena Gelzinyte +26

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons - hybridized modes arising from the ultrastrong coupling of infrared light to strongly anisotropic lattice vibrations in uniaxial or biaxial polar crys…

physics.optics2025

Ultraconfined THz Phonon Polaritons in Hafnium Dichalcogenides

R. A. Kowalski, N. S. Mueller, G. Álvarez-Pérez +18

The confinement of electromagnetic radiation to subwavelength scales relies on strong light-matter interactions. In the infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) spectral ranges, phonon po…

physics.optics2024

Determining van der Waals materials' optical and polaritonic properties using cryogenic FTIR micro-spectroscopy

Siddharth Nandanwar, Aditya Desai, S. Maryam Vaghefi Esfidani +4

Van-der-Waals materials have been shown to support numerous exotic polaritonic phenomena originating from their layered structures and associated vibrational and electronic propert…

physics.optics2024★ 25 cited

Unidirectional Ray Polaritons in Twisted Asymmetric Stacks

J. Álvarez-Cuervo, M. Obst, S. Dixit +25

The vast repository of van der Waals (vdW) materials supporting polaritons offers numerous possibilities to tailor electromagnetic waves at the nanoscale. The development of twisto…

physics.optics2022★ 40 cited

In-plane hyperbolic polariton tuners in terahertz and long-wave infrared regimes

Wuchao Huang, Thomas G. Folland, Fengsheng Sun +8

Development of terahertz (THz) and long-wave infrared (LWIR) technologies is mainly bottlenecked by the limited intrinsic response of traditional materials. Hyperbolic phonon polar…

physics.optics2021★ 62 cited

Perspective: Phonon polaritons for infrared optoelectronics

Christopher R. Gubbin, Simone De Liberato, Thomas G. Folland

In recent years there has been significant fundamental research into phonon polaritons, owing to their ability to compress light to extremely small dimensions, low-losses, and abil…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Van der Waals phonon polariton microstructures for configurable infrared electromagnetic field localizations

Wuchao Huang, Fengsheng Sun, Zebo Zheng +7

Polar van der Waals (vdW) crystals that support phonon polaritons have recently attracted much attention because they can confine infrared and terahertz (THz) light to deeply subwa…

physics.optics2021★ 3 cited

Unraveling Ultrafast Photoionization in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Lianjie Xue, Song Liu, Yang Hang +17

The non-linear response of dielectrics to intense, ultrashort electric fields has been a sustained topic of interest for decades with one of its most important applications being f…

physics.optics2020★ 16 cited

Multi-frequency coherent emission from superstructure thermal emitters

Guanyu Lu, Marko Tadjer, Joshua D. Caldwell +1

Long-range spatial coherence can be induced in thermal emitters by embedding a periodic grating into a material supporting propagating polaritons or dielectric modes. However, the…

physics.optics2020★ 2 cited

Guided Mid-IR and Near-IR Light within a Hybrid Hyperbolic-Material/Silicon Waveguide Heterostructure

Mingze He, Sami I. Halimi, Thomas G. Folland +6

Silicon waveguides have enabled large-scale manipulation and processing of near-infrared optical signals on chip. Yet, expanding the bandwidth of guided waves to other frequencies…

physics.optics2020★ 83 cited

Lithography-free IR polarization converters via orthogonal in-plane phonons in a-MoO3 flakes

Sina Abedini Dereshgi, Thomas G. Folland, Akshay A. Murthy +5

Exploiting polaritons in natural vdW materials has been successful in achieving extreme light confinement and low-loss optical devices and enabling simplified device integration. R…

physics.optics2020★ 51 cited

Vibrational Coupling to Epsilon-Near-Zero Waveguide Modes

Thomas G. Folland, Guanyu Lu, A. Bruncz +3

Epsilon near zero modes offer extreme field enhancement that can be utilized for developing enhanced sensing schemes. However, demonstrations of enhanced spectroscopies have largel…

physics.optics2019★ 109 cited

Refractive Index-Based Control of Hyperbolic Phonon-Polariton Propagation

Alireza Fali, Samuel T. White, Thomas G. Folland +7

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) are generated when infrared photons couple to polar optic phonons in anisotropic media, confining long-wavelength light to nanoscale volumes. H…

physics.optics2018★ 106 cited

Strong Coupling of Epsilon-Near-Zero Phonon Polaritons in Polar Dielectric Heterostructures

Nikolai Christian Passler, Christopher R. Gubbin, Thomas Graeme Folland +7

We report the first observation of epsilon near zero (ENZ) phonon polaritons in an ultrathin AlN film fully hybridized with surface phonon polaritons (SPhP) supported by the adjace…

physics.optics2018★ 26 cited

Probing hyperbolic polaritons using infrared attenuated total reflectance micro-spectroscopy

Thomas G. Folland, Tobias W. W. Maß, Joseph R. Matson +7

Hyperbolic polariton modes are highly appealing for a broad range of applications in nanophotonics, including surfaced enhanced sensing, sub-diffractional imaging and reconfigurabl…

physics.optics2018★ 208 cited

Reconfigurable Mid-Infrared Hyperbolic Metasurfaces using Phase-Change Materials

Thomas G. Folland, Alireza Fali, Samuel T. White +7

Metasurfaces offer the potential to control light propagation at the nanoscale for applications in both free-space and surface-confined geometries. Existing metasurfaces frequently…