[HTML][HTML] Zero-index and hyperbolic metacavities: fundamentals and applications

Z Guo, H Jiang, H Chen - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
As a basic building block, optical resonant cavities (ORCs) are widely used in light
manipulation. They can confine electromagnetic waves and improve the interaction between …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental demonstration of broadband negative refraction at visible frequencies by critical layer thickness analysis in a vertical hyperbolic metamaterial

H Cho, Y Yang, D Lee, S So, J Rho - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
This work presents a vertical hyperbolic metamaterial (vHMM) consisting of a vertically
stacked metal-dielectric multilayer that operates in the visible spectrum. The vHMM is …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives and opportunities with multisubband plasmonics

M Montes Bajo, JM Chauveau, A Vasanelli… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In highly doped semiconductor quantum wells (QWs), electrons populate various energy
states from different subbands and, therefore, several optical intersubband transitions …

Abnormal wave propagation in tilted linear‐crossing metamaterials

Z Guo, H Jiang, H Chen - Advanced Photonics Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The propagation properties of electromagnetic waves depend on media dispersion in
momentum space, which can be characterized using isofrequency contours (IFCs). Normal …

Epsilon‐Near‐Zero Enhancement of Nonlinear Responses from Intersubband Transitions in the Mid‐Infrared

G Barbet, B Qiang, Y Jin, T Wu… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many applications of photonics require efficient nonlinear optical interactions with low power
and small footprints. However, the current needs for long interaction lengths and strong laser …

Phase-transition optical activity in chiral metamaterials

F Xie, M Ren, W Wu, D Yu, W Cai, J Xu - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Optical activity from chiral metamaterials is both fundamental in electrodynamics and useful
for polarization control applications. It is normally expected that due to infinitesimally small …

Miniaturized Backward Coupler Realized by the Circuit‐Based Planar Hyperbolic Waveguide

Z Guo, J Song, H Jiang, H Chen - Advanced Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Planar waveguides limit the transmission of electromagnetic waves in a specific direction
and have a wide range of applications in filters, sensors, and energy‐transfer devices …

Semiconductor quantum plasmonics

A Vasanelli, S Huppert, A Haky, T Laurent, Y Todorov… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We investigate the frontier between classical and quantum plasmonics in highly doped
semiconductor layers. The choice of a semiconductor platform instead of metals for our study …

Synthesis and observation of optical skyrmionic structure in free space

J Zhu, S Liu, YS Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.11293, 2021 - arxiv.org
The skyrmion, which is characterised by a topological integer, is a structure that is
topologically stable against local disturbances. The huge potential of skyrmions for use in …

[HTML][HTML] Ballistic metamaterials

K Li, E Simmons, AF Briggs, SR Bank, D Wasserman… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We report the theoretical prediction and experimental realization of the optical phenomenon
of “ballistic resonance.” This resonance, resulting from the interplay between free charge …