Nonlinear propagation of laser light in plasmonic nanocomposites

L Agiotis, M Meunier - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic nanocomposites have been extensively studied for over 3 decades. According to
early theoretical studies, a large enhancement of nonlinear response has been predicted …

Conservation of orbital angular momentum and polarization through biological waveguides

N Perez, D Preece, R Wilson, A Bezryadina - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
A major roadblock to the development of photonic sensors is the scattering associated with
many biological systems. We show the conservation of photonic states through optically self …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear generation of hollow beams in tunable plasmonic nanosuspensions

J Zhan, D Li, D Bongiovanni, Y Xiang, S Chen… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally demonstrate that a probe beam at one wavelength, although exhibiting a
weak nonlinear response on its own, can be modulated and controlled by a pump beam at …

Nonlinear optical response of heme solutions

Y Zhang, H Hao, L Song, H Wang, D Li… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Heme is the prosthetic group for cytochrome that exists in nearly all living organisms and
serves as a vital component of human red blood cells (RBCs). Tunable optical nonlinearity …

Nonlinear self-trapping and guiding of light at different wavelengths with sheep blood

N Perez, J Chambers, Z Chen, A Bezryadina - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the formation of waveguides, a few centimeters long, in colloidal
suspensions of sheep red blood cells for a wide range of wavelengths due to nonlinear self …

Tunable optical nonlinearity and self-collimation of light in food dye solutions

Y Zhang, G Liang, L Tang, D Li, J Zhan, D Song… - Optics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Food dyes are widely used in scientific research apart from the food colorant industry. In this
work, we investigate nonlinear propagation of optical beams in food dye solutions of …

Resonant optical nonlinearity and fluorescence enhancement in electrically tuned plasmonic nanosuspensions

Y Xiang, G Liang, P Alvaro, X Hu… - Advanced Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Controlled orientation and alignment of rod‐shaped plasmonic nanoparticles are of great
interest for many applications. Herein, it is demonstrated that the nonlinear optical response …

Creating light-made waveguides with structured optical beams in nonlinear Kerr media

M Zamboni-Rached, KZ Nobrega, M Mojahedi - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
While in linear optics the subject of structured light has been a fruitful field of both theoretical
and applied research, its development in the arena of nonlinear optics has been …

Guiding light with singular beams in nanoplasmonic colloids

A Balbuena Ortega, FE Torres-González… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the nonlinear propagation of light beams with complex phase and intensity
structures, including a Gaussian-embedded vortex, a Bessel vortex, and a Bessel-cosine …

Nonlinear thermal lensing of high repetition rate ultrafast laser light in plasmonic nano-colloids

L Agiotis, M Meunier - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
We report on experimental observations of phenomenological self-trapping in plasmonic
colloids of varying plasmon peaks in the visible/near infrared. A femtosecond (fs) oscillator is …