Photothermal nanomaterials: a powerful light-to-heat converter

X Cui, Q Ruan, X Zhuo, X Xia, J Hu, R Fu, Y Li… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
All forms of energy follow the law of conservation of energy, by which they can be neither
created nor destroyed. Light-to-heat conversion as a traditional yet constantly evolving …

Long persistent luminescence from metal–organic compounds: state of the art

B Zhou, D Yan - Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The excited‐state tuning of luminescent metal–organic compounds has made great
progress in the fields of optical imaging, photocatalysis, photodynamic therapy, light …

Towards higher-dimensional structured light

C He, Y Shen, A Forbes - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

Coloured vortex beams with incoherent white light illumination

H Wang, H Wang, Q Ruan, JYE Chan, W Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The orbital angular momentum is a fundamental degree of freedom of light wavefronts,
currently exploited in applications where information capacity is a key requirement, such as …

Metasurface-empowered optical cryptography

H Yang, K Ou, H Wan, Y Hu, Z Wei, H Jia, X Cheng… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Information security is of great importance in every aspect of life, spawning
numerous modern cryptographic strategies to protect data from stealing and deciphering …

Design strategies and applications of dimensional optical field manipulation based on metasurfaces

W Liu, Z Li, MA Ansari, H Cheng, J Tian… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent rapid progress in metasurfaces is underpinned by the physics of local and nonlocal
resonances and the modes coupling among them, leading to tremendous applications such …

Chip-based high-dimensional optical neural network

X Wang, P Xie, B Chen, X Zhang - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
Parallel multi-thread processing in advanced intelligent processors is the core to realize
high-speed and high-capacity signal processing systems. Optical neural network (ONN) has …

Efficient ultrafast laser writing with elliptical polarization

Y Lei, G Shayeganrad, H Wang, M Sakakura… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Photosensitivity in nature is commonly associated with stronger light absorption. It is also
believed that artificial optical anisotropy to be the strongest when created by light with linear …

Perovskite single-pixel detector for dual-color metasurface imaging recognition in complex environment

J Xiong, ZH Zhang, Z Li, P Zheng, J Li… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Highly efficient multi-dimensional data storage and extraction are two primary ends for the
design and fabrication of emerging optical materials. Although metasurfaces show great …

All‐dielectric metasurface‐enabled multiple vortex emissions

H Zhang, X Sha, Q Chen, J Cheng, Z Ji… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
On‐chip integrated micro‐and nanoscale vortex lasers are key elements for addressing the
exponentially growing demand for information capacity. Although tunable vortex microlasers …