Coherent perfect absorbers: linear control of light with light

DG Baranov, A Krasnok, T Shegai, A Alù… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The absorption of electromagnetic energy by a material is a phenomenon that underlies
many applications, including molecular sensing, photocurrent generation and …

Reconfigurable nanomechanical photonic metamaterials

NI Zheludev, E Plum - Nature nanotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
The changing balance of forces at the nanoscale offers the opportunity to develop a new
generation of spatially reconfigurable nanomembrane metamaterials in which …

Anomalies in light scattering

A Krasnok, D Baranov, H Li, MA Miri… - Advances in Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The scattering of electromagnetic waves lies at the heart of most experimental techniques
over nearly the entire electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from radio waves to optics and x …

Design for quality: reconfigurable flat optics based on active metasurfaces

MY Shalaginov, SD Campbell, S An, Y Zhang… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Optical metasurfaces, planar subwavelength nanoantenna arrays with the singular ability to
sculpt wavefront in almost arbitrary manners, are poised to become a powerful tool enabling …

All-optical switching based on plasmon-induced Enhancement of Index of Refraction

R Dhama, A Panahpour, T Pihlava, D Ghindani… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In quantum optical Enhancement of Index of Refraction (EIR), coherence and quantum
interference render the atomic systems to exhibit orders of magnitude higher susceptibilities …

Roadmap on optical metamaterials

AM Urbas, Z Jacob, L Dal Negro, N Engheta… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical metamaterials have redefined how we understand light in notable ways: from strong
response to optical magnetic fields, negative refraction, fast and slow light propagation in …

Unidirectional reflectionless light propagation at exceptional points

Y Huang, Y Shen, C Min, S Fan, G Veronis - Nanophotonics, 2017 - degruyter.com
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of unidirectional reflectionless light
propagation in photonic devices at exceptional points (EPs). EPs, which are branch point …

Two-dimensional control of light with light on metasurfaces

M Papaioannou, E Plum, J Valente… - Light: Science & …, 2016 - nature.com
The ability to control the wavefront of light is fundamental to focusing and redistribution of
light, enabling many applications from imaging to spectroscopy. Wave interaction on highly …

Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption

A Xomalis, I Demirtzioglou, E Plum, Y Jung… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Recently, coherent control of the optical response of thin films in standing waves has
attracted considerable attention, ranging from applications in excitation-selective …

Obtaining optical properties on demand

NI Zheludev - Science, 2015 - science.org
With the developments in nanotechnology that enable atoms, singly or in clumps, to be
moved and arranged at will, we now have the capability of creating metamaterials that can …