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Subcycle squeezing of light from a time flow perspective
A general theoretical picture regarding the generation and the detection of extremely short pulses of squeezed vacuum light is provided, allowing the treatment of arbitrary wavepackets of quantum light intrinsically in the time domain.
- Matthias Kizmann
- , Thiago Lucena de M. Guedes
- & Guido Burkard
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Deep-subwavelength features of photonic skyrmions in a confined electromagnetic field with orbital angular momentum
Magnetic textures known as skyrmions have gathered much attention in recent years. It is now shown that focused vector beams can also give rise to photonic skyrmion-like structures.
- Luping Du
- , Aiping Yang
- & Xiaocong Yuan
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Plasmonic dynamics measured with frequency-comb-referenced phase spectroscopy
By means of a novel referencing technique that is based on the high stability of frequency combs, broadband phase spectra from plasmonics rulers can now be used to measure dynamic motion of nanostructures with picometre resolution.
- Nguyen Duy Anh
- , Byung Jae Chun
- & Young-Jin Kim
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Hotspot-mediated non-dissipative and ultrafast plasmon passage
Strong plasmonic hotspots can facilitate ultrafast energy transfer between metallic nanoparticles with almost no energy loss.
- Eva-Maria Roller
- , Lucas V. Besteiro
- & Tim Liedl
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Imaging through the looking-glass
A planar composite material images ultraviolet light like a lens, by unwinding its phase. The concept could aid high-resolution nanolithography.
- Rupert F. Oulton
- & John B. Pendry
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Wave propagation control at the deep subwavelength scale in metamaterials
Photonic crystals efficiently control wave propagation on a wavelength scale, but this means they can become very large when long wavelengths are involved. Metamaterials made of resonant unit cells can confine and guide waves even at scales far below their wavelength.
- Fabrice Lemoult
- , Nadège Kaina
- & Geoffroy Lerosey
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