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| Open AccessInkjet-printed optical interference filters
Optical interference filters are multilayer structures for controlling the propagation of electromagnetic waves. Jin et al. have developed a method of via inkjet printing to fabricate optical interference filters with commercially relevant quality with remarkable A4 paper size (29.7 × 21.0 cm²) in ambient conditions.
- Qihao Jin
- , Qiaoshuang Zhang
- & Uli Lemmer
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| Open AccessHigh-throughput quantum photonic devices emitting indistinguishable photons in the telecom C-band
An efficient way of realising a large number of telecom single-photon emitters for quantum communication is still missing. Here, the authors use a wide-field imaging technique for fast localization of single InAs/InP quantum dots, which are then integrated into circular Bragg grating cavities featuring high single-photon purity and indistinguishability.
- Paweł Holewa
- , Daniel A. Vajner
- & Elizaveta Semenova
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| Open AccessUltrastrong exciton-plasmon couplings in WS2 multilayers synthesized with a random multi-singular metasurface at room temperature
Here, the authors fabricate a metasurface with nanometre-sized plasmonic hotspots that interact coherently with WS2 excitons, achieving ultrastrong exciton-plasmon coupling.
- Tingting Wu
- , Chongwu Wang
- & Yu Luo
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| Open AccessUltrafast photoluminescence and multiscale light amplification in nanoplasmonic cavity glass
This article presents a unique nanocomposite plasmonic-excitonic glass with extraordinary amplified optical properties: ultra-narrow photoluminescence (FWHM = 13 nm) and ultrashort photoluminescence lifetime (90 ps) at room temperature
- Piotr Piotrowski
- , Marta Buza
- & Dorota A. Pawlak
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| Open AccessObservation of spatiotemporal optical vortices enabled by symmetry-breaking slanted nanograting
A microscale platform composed of a slanted nanograting is experimentally demonstrated to efficiently generate spatiotemporal optical vortex. This approach paves the way towards an integrated system for ultrafast pulse shaping.
- Pengcheng Huo
- , Wei Chen
- & Ting Xu
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| Open AccessA 2D chiral microcavity based on apparent circular dichroism
Here the authors induce asymmetric transmission in planar Fabry–Pérot microcavities by embedding organic thin films exhibiting apparent circular dichroism (ACD), an optical phenomenon based on 2D chirality.
- Tzu-Ling Chen
- , Andrew Salij
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| Open AccessIntercavity polariton slows down dynamics in strongly coupled cavities
Band engineering in optics allows the design of unconventional forms of light with potential optoelectronic applications. Here, the authors realize slow-light intercavity polaritons in an array of coupled cavities, the photonic architecture enables the spatial segregation of photons and excitons
- Yesenia A. García Jomaso
- , Brenda Vargas
- & Giuseppe Pirruccio
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| Open AccessLarge area single crystal gold of single nanometer thickness for nanophotonics
2D metallic single crystals are sought after for nanophotonic applications, but their synthesis remains challenging. Here, the authors report an atomic level precision etching method to fabricate large-area crystalline gold flakes with nanometre thickness, showing enhanced plasmonic and nonlinear optical properties.
- Chenxinyu Pan
- , Yuanbiao Tong
- & Pan Wang
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| Open AccessEfficient excitation and control of integrated photonic circuits with virtual critical coupling
The authors achieve enhanced cavity loading using complex-frequency excitations that can tailor on-demand the effective coupling rate in a microring resonator by precisely controlling the temporal evolution of the incident pulses.
- Jakob Hinney
- , Seunghwi Kim
- & Michal Lipson
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| Open AccessObservation of naturally canalized phonon polaritons in LiV2O5 thin layers
Canalized polaritons are light-matter excitations characterized by intrinsic collimation of electromagnetic energy along a specific crystal axis. Here, the authors report the observation of intrinsically canalized phonon polaritons in a single thin layer of a van der Waals crystal, LiV2O5.
- Ana I. F. Tresguerres-Mata
- , Christian Lanza
- & Pablo Alonso-González
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| Open AccessTunable anisotropic van der Waals films of 2M-WS2 for plasmon canalization
Anisotropic light-matter excitations in van der Waals materials are expected to have an impact on nanophotonics applications. Here, the authors report the observation of canalized in-plane mid-infrared plasmons in the semimetallic phase of WS2 and demonstrate their electrical tunability via ion intercalation.
- Qiaoxia Xing
- , Jiasheng Zhang
- & Hugen Yan
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| Open AccessUltrafast all-optical second harmonic wavefront shaping
Enhancing the data encoding into the orbital angular momentum of light beams could enable faster and more efficient optical communications. This work demonstrates complex control of the second harmonic wavefront with dynamics solely limited by the pulse duration.
- Artem Sinelnik
- , Shiu Hei Lam
- & Isabelle Staude
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| Open AccessHigh performance artificial visual perception and recognition with a plasmon-enhanced 2D material neural network
Here, the authors demonstrate a low-power neuromorphic visual architecture based on a plasmon-enhanced 2D semiconductor phototransistor array, showing high-speed sensing, preprocessing and image recognition functionalities.
- Tian Zhang
- , Xin Guo
- & Linjun Li
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| Open AccessUltra-compact exciton polariton modulator based on van der Waals semiconductors
Miniaturized and efficient optical modulators are desired for data transmission, processing and communication. Here, the authors report the fabrication of exciton-polariton Mach–Zehnder modulators based on thin WS2 waveguides with a footprint of ~30 μm², modulation ratio up to −6.20 dB and nanosecond response times.
- Seong Won Lee
- , Jong Seok Lee
- & Su-Hyun Gong
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| Open AccessWandering principal optical axes in van der Waals triclinic materials
Principal optical axes define light-matter interactions in crystals and they are usually assumed to be stationary. Here, the authors report the observation of wavelength-dependent principal optical axes in ternary van der Waals crystals (ReS2 and ReSe2), leading to wavelength-switchable propagation directions of their waveguide modes.
- Georgy A. Ermolaev
- , Kirill V. Voronin
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| Open AccessOptically addressable spin defects coupled to bound states in the continuum metasurfaces
Previous research reported enhanced emission from spin defects in hBN by coupling to optical resonators; however, this approach has limited scalability. Here the authors use a monolithic metasurface featuring quasi bound states fabricated from hBN to enhance photoemission and optical spin-readout efficiency of defects in the same material.
- Luca Sortino
- , Angus Gale
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| Open AccessExtensive photochemical restructuring of molecule-metal surfaces under room light
The nature of the molecule-metal interface is crucial for many technological applications. Here, the authors show that the photostability of the material can be sensitive to room light when coated with a single molecular layer, with implications for devices and processes.
- Chenyang Guo
- , Philip Benzie
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| Open AccessCoherent control of enhanced second-harmonic generation in a plasmonic nanocircuit using a transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer
Here, the authors integrate monolayer MoSe2 with a plasmonic nanocircuit and demonstrate the coherent selective routing of the enhanced nonlinear optical signal emitted by the 2D semiconductor, with routing extinction ratios up to 14.86 dB.
- Pei-Yuan Wu
- , Wei-Qing Lee
- & Chen-Bin Huang
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| Open AccessElectron/infrared-phonon coupling in ABC trilayer graphene
Via Raman and infrared spectroscopy measurements, X. Zan et al. find that rhombohedral ABC trilayer graphene has stronger electron/infrared-phonon coupling than Bernal ABA trilayer graphene.
- Xiaozhou Zan
- , Xiangdong Guo
- & Guangyu Zhang
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| Open AccessMode-multiplexing deep-strong light-matter coupling
The authors show an original approach to achieve strong light-matter interaction harnessing the coupling between plasmonic resonators and the Landau resonances of an underlying quantum well, demonstrating remarkably high coupling strengths.
- Joshua Mornhinweg
- , Laura Katharina Diebel
- & Christoph Lange
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| Open AccessAll-in-one, all-optical logic gates using liquid metal plasmon nonlinearity
Multifunctional all-optical logic gate (AOLG) with broadband-based massively parallel processing is desirable for high-speed optical processor. Here, authors propose a reconfigurable all-in-one ultra-broadband AOLG with experimentally achieving 9 fundamental Boolean logics in a single configuration.
- Jinlong Xu
- , Chi Zhang
- & Lin Zhou
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| Open AccessBroadband thermal imaging using meta-optics
Exploring the miniaturization of imaging systems, researchers use inverse-design for broadband meta-optics in the LWIR spectrum. Here, authors achieve a six-fold Strehl ratio improvement in image quality over conventional metalenses using a novel design and computational techniques.
- Luocheng Huang
- , Zheyi Han
- & Arka Majumdar
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| Open AccessAnomalously bright single-molecule upconversion electroluminescence
The efficiency of upconversion electroluminescence remains very low for single-molecule emitters. Here, the authors report over one order of magnitude improvement in the emission efficiency via engineering energy-level alignments for triplet relayed upconversion involving only carrier injection.
- Yang Luo
- , Fan-Fang Kong
- & Zhen-Chao Dong
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| Open AccessNonlinear spin-orbit coupling in optical thin films
Spin-orbit interaction, and the associated phenomena, is commonly observed in crystalline structure pumped with circularly polarised beam. Here, the authors showed that this is not the case, and used nonlinear thin film to produce vortex beams of second-harmonic light.
- Domenico de Ceglia
- , Laure Coudrat
- & Costantino De Angelis
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| Open AccessDynamic light manipulation via silicon-organic slot metasurfaces
In this work, the authors present an active optical metasurface based on a silicon-organic platform. The metasurface can modulate the amplitude of a reflected beam via electric voltage actuation lower than ± 17V.
- Tianzhe Zheng
- , Yiran Gu
- & Andrei Faraon
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| Open AccessDual-color emissive OLED with orthogonal polarization modes
The authors present a switchable dual colour orthogonal linear polarized OLED by internally integrating a nanograting for selective diffraction of optical modes, which is appealing for applications including polarisation-encrypted colourful optical images and autostereoscopic naked-eye 3D displays.
- Ruixiang Chen
- , Ningning Liang
- & Tianrui Zhai
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| Open AccessOptical Tellegen metamaterial with spontaneous magnetization
Here the authors propose an isotropic three-dimensional metamaterial with nonreciprocal magnetoelectric resonant responses at visible and mid-infrared frequencies. The proposed metamaterials do not require external magnetization.
- Shadi Safaei Jazi
- , Ihar Faniayeu
- & Viktar Asadchy
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| Open AccessVisualizing the interfacial-layer-based epitaxial growth process toward organic core-shell architectures
Organic heterostructures with controlled geometry on the micro and nanoscale are important in nanotechnology, but epitaxial growth processes with high lattice mismatching are challenging to achieve. Here, the authors report a visualisation process for morphology evolution on epitaxial growth.
- Ming-Peng Zhuo
- , Xiao Wei
- & Liang-Sheng Liao
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| Open AccessFloquet parity-time symmetry in integrated photonics
Here the authors unveil an approach rooted in non-Hermitian physics to precisely control light amplification in an integrated photonic platform, paving the way for innovative on-chip functionalities, like coherent control of light amplification and routing.
- Weijie Liu
- , Quancheng Liu
- & Feng Chen
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| Open AccessSwitchable unidirectional emissions from hydrogel gratings with integrated carbon quantum dots
Directional emission of photoluminescence is an emerging technique for light-emitting fields and nanophotonics. Here, the authors demonstrate a hydrogel grating with integrated quantum dots for switchable unidirectional emission tuning.
- Chenjie Dai
- , Shuai Wan
- & Zhongyang Li
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| Open AccessThermo-optic epsilon-near-zero effects
Nonlinear epsilon-near-zero nanodevices are attractive solutions for large-scale integrated system-on-chips yet heat genearation upon operation affects their performance. Here, the authors studied the linear and nonlinear thermo-optic effects in the indium tin oxide, commonly used material for this system.
- Jiaye Wu
- , Marco Clementi
- & Camille-Sophie Brès
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| Open AccessManipulating hyperbolic transient plasmons in a layered semiconductor
Here, the authors report the generation and manipulation of transient hyperbolic plasmons in black phosphorus via ultrafast photocarrier injection, demonstrating a topological transition of the non-equilibrium iso-frequency contours and the coexistence of different transient plasmonic modes.
- Rao Fu
- , Yusong Qu
- & Jianing Chen
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| Open AccessProgrammable integrated photonics for topological Hamiltonians
Topological photonics could impact the scalability of integrated photonics, but it has shown limited reconfigurability to date. Here, the authors demonstrate reprogrammable integrated photonics as a nearly universal platform for topological models.
- Mehmet Berkay On
- , Farshid Ashtiani
- & Andrea Blanco-Redondo
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| Open AccessPhotonic Stochastic Emergent Storage for deep classification by scattering-intrinsic patterns
Photonic Stochastic Emergent Storage is a neuromorphic photonic device for image storage and classification based on scattering-intrinsic patterns. Here, the authors show emergent storage employs stochastic prototype scattering-induced light patterns to generate categories corresponding to emergent archetypes.
- Marco Leonetti
- , Giorgio Gosti
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| Open AccessScalable nano-architecture for stable near-blackbody solar absorption at high temperatures
Nanostructures are generally unstable above 850 °C in air, limiting their use in high-temperature solar thermal applications. Here, a scalable ceramic nano-architecture layer can significantly enhance and stabilise the absorption of an arbitrary solar absorber.
- Yifan Guo
- , Kaoru Tsuda
- & Juan F. Torres
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| Open AccessCreating pairs of exceptional points for arbitrary polarization control: asymmetric vectorial wavefront modulation
The authors report the chiral inversion of exceptional points (EPs) through a structural mirror-symmetric operation, extending the application of EP to any desired polarization states, surpassing the inherent limitation of conventional EP systems.
- Zijin Yang
- , Po-Sheng Huang
- & Qinghua Song
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| Open AccessPlanar hyperbolic polaritons in 2D van der Waals materials
In this Perspective, the authors illustrate the physics of hyperbolic polaritons in anisotropic 2D and 1D materials, proposing new potential material candidates, forward looking opportunities and technological applications.
- Hongwei Wang
- , Anshuman Kumar
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| Open AccessQuantum plasmonics pushes chiral sensing limit to single molecules: a paradigm for chiral biodetections
Chiroptic sensing of single molecule is extremely challenging. Here the authors unveil an extreme nanophotonic system based on nanoparticle-on-mirror shows exceptional high sensitivity of chiral supramolecules, which can resolve enantiomer access of a racemate monolayer, exhibiting great potential for single chiral molecule sensing.
- Chi Zhang
- , Huatian Hu
- & Tao Ding
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| Open AccessHigh quality factor metasurfaces for two-dimensional wavefront manipulation
Wavefront manipulation with metasurfaces is typically limited to low quality factors. Here, the authors show how higher-order Mie modes can be leveraged to design high quality factor optical metasurfaces for wavefront manipulation in two dimensions.
- Claudio U. Hail
- , Morgan Foley
- & Harry A. Atwater
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| Open AccessProbing optical anapoles with fast electron beams
Optical anapoles in nanoresonators result in strong suppression of the electromagnetic radiation, which is challenging to detect in ideal settings. Here, the authors show that fast electrons are a powerful tool to circumvent this challenge due to their ability to access dark modes.
- Carlos Maciel-Escudero
- , Andrew B. Yankovich
- & Timur O. Shegai
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| Open AccessAll-optical geometric image transformations enabled by ultrathin metasurfaces
Metasurfaces enable all-optical geometric coordinate transformations, converting images with altered pixel spatial relations, which can facilitate fast, energy-efficient preprocessing for tasks like object tracking, or aid in laser manufacturing.
- Xingwang Zhang
- , Xiaojie Zhang
- & Xingjie Ni
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| Open AccessTracking exceptional points above the lasing threshold
The authors report on the experimental observation and characterization of exceptional points above the lasing threshold in photonic crystal nanocavities.
- Kaiwen Ji
- , Qi Zhong
- & Alejandro M. Yacomotti
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| Open AccessNanophotonics for pair production
The authors propose electron-positron creation by scattering of gamma-rays and polaritons, enabling the synthesis of ultrafast, localized positron sources and introducing the possibility to exploit nanophotonics for particle physics.
- Valerio Di Giulio
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| Open AccessPlasmon mediated coherent population oscillations in molecular aggregates
The authors uncover a coherent, long-range transport of excitons in organic semiconductors that are strongly coupled to spatially structured plasmon fields by tracing ultrafast Rabi oscillations using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy.
- Daniel Timmer
- , Moritz Gittinger
- & Christoph Lienau
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| Open AccessPolariton design and modulation via van der Waals/doped semiconductor heterostructures
The photonic applications of hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) in anisotropic van der Waals materials are currently limited by their low tunability. Here, the authors report the static and ultrafast wavevector modulation of HPhPs in hexagonal boron nitride by tuning the plasma frequency of doped semiconductor substrates.
- Mingze He
- , Joseph R. Matson
- & Joshua D. Caldwell
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| Open AccessAll electromagnetic scattering bodies are matrix-valued oscillators
The usual treatment of wave scattering theory relies on a formalism that does not easily allow for probing optimal spectral response. Here, the authors show how an alternative formalism, encoding fundamental principles of causality and passivity, can be used to make sense of complex scattered fields’ structures.
- Lang Zhang
- , Francesco Monticone
- & Owen D. Miller
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| Open AccessThermal and electrostatic tuning of surface phonon-polaritons in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures
Phonon polaritons are promising for infrared applications while it is difficult to tune the phonon polariton properties. Here, authors report a thermal and electrostatic tuning of surface phonon polaritons in heterostructures of LaAlO3/SrTiO3.
- Yixi Zhou
- , Adrien Waelchli
- & Alexey B. Kuzmenko
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| Open AccessSuperwavelength self-healing of spoof surface sonic Airy-Talbot waves
The Airy-Talbot effect is experimentally demonstrated for spoof surface acoustic waves in a structured metasurface. Owing to its self-imaging and self-healing properties, the authors achieve robust multipath transmission of nonperiodic signals.
- Hao-xiang Li
- , Jing-jing Liu
- & Johan Christensen
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| Open AccessOptomechanical ring resonator for efficient microwave-optical frequency conversion
The authors showed a high-efficiency microwave-optical conversion using optomechanical rings where co-resonant traveling photons and phonons induce enhanced interconversion, which enables transduction application in quantum and classical domains.
- I-Tung Chen
- , Bingzhao Li
- & Mo Li