Advances in light transverse momenta and optical lateral forces

Y Shi, X Xu, M Nieto-Vesperinas, Q Song… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
<? pag\vskip-16pt?> Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the
cornerstones in modern optics and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits …

Electron-beam spectroscopy for nanophotonics

A Polman, M Kociak, FJ García de Abajo - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Progress in electron-beam spectroscopies has recently enabled the study of optical
excitations with combined space, energy and time resolution in the nanometre …

Generalized Kerker effects in nanophotonics and meta-optics

W Liu, YS Kivshar - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The original Kerker effect was introduced for a hypothetical magnetic sphere, and initially it
did not attract much attention due to a lack of magnetic materials required. Rejuvenated by …

An electromagnetic multipole expansion beyond the long-wavelength approximation

R Alaee, C Rockstuhl, I Fernandez-Corbaton - Optics Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
The multipole expansion is a key tool in the study of light–matter interactions. All the
information about the radiation of and coupling to electromagnetic fields of a given charge …

Nanoparticles heat through light localization

NJ Hogan, AS Urban, C Ayala-Orozco, A Pimpinelli… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Aqueous solutions containing light-absorbing nanoparticles have recently been shown to
produce steam at high efficiencies upon solar illumination, even when the temperature of the …

Single-photon nanoantennas

AF Koenderink - ACS photonics, 2017 - ACS Publications
Single-photon nanoantennas are broadband strongly scattering nanostructures placed in
the near field of a single quantum emitter, with the goal to enhance the coupling between the …

Silicon Mie resonators for highly directional light emission from monolayer MoS2

AF Cihan, AG Curto, S Raza, PG Kik… - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
Controlling light emission from quantum emitters has important applications, ranging from
solid-state lighting and displays to nanoscale single-photon sources. Optical antennas have …

A generalized Kerker condition for highly directive nanoantennas

R Alaee, R Filter, D Lehr, F Lederer, C Rockstuhl - Optics letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A nanoantenna with balanced electric and magnetic dipole moments, known as the first
Kerker condition, exhibits a directive radiation pattern with zero backscattering. In principle …

Free-electron–light interactions in nanophotonics

C Roques-Carmes, SE Kooi, Y Yang, N Rivera… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
When impinging on optical structures or passing in their vicinity, free electrons can
spontaneously emit electromagnetic radiation, a phenomenon generally known as …

Experimental observation of superscattering

C Qian, X Lin, Y Yang, X Xiong, H Wang, E Li… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Superscattering, induced by degenerate resonances, breaks the fundamental single-
channel limit of the scattering cross section of subwavelength structures; in principle, an …