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20242026
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5 papers

physics.optics2026

Three-dimensional confinement of light in photonic crystals without bandgaps

Manxi Shi, Sachin Vaidya, Ali Ghorashi +2

We demonstrate that confinement of light in three dimensions is possible in photonic crystals without a complete photonic bandgap. Our approach exploits symmetry-protected quadrati…

physics.optics2026

Hybrid Nanophotonic Scintillators for Enhanced X-ray Absorption, Emission, and Time Resolution

Seou Choi, Sachin Vaidya, Avner Shultzman +3

Scintillators convert ionizing radiation into visible photons, enabling applications from cosmic ray detection to medical imaging. Two independent strategies for improving scintill…

quant-ph2025

Long-range entanglement and quantum correlations in a multi-frequency comb system

Sahil Pontula, Debasmita Banerjee, Marin Soljacic +1

Frequency combs are multimode photonic systems that underlie countless precision sensing and metrology applications. Since their invention over two decades ago, numerous efforts ha…

physics.optics2025

Probing intensity noise in ultrafast pulses using the dispersive Fourier transform augmented by quantum sensitivity analysis

Shiekh Zia Uddin, Sahil Pontula, Jiaxin Liu +4

To reach the next frontier in multimode nonlinear optics, it is crucial to better understand the classical and quantum phenomena of systems with many interacting degrees of freedom…

quant-ph2024

Observing the dynamics of quantum states generated inside nonlinear optical cavities

Seou Choi, Yannick Salamin, Charles Roques-Carmes +3

Quantum states at optical frequencies are often generated inside cavities to facilitate strong nonlinear interactions. However, measuring these quantum states with traditional homo…