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Enhanced Deformability Through Distributed Buckling in Stiff Quasicrystalline Architected Materials

Architected materials achieve unique mechanical properties through precisely engineered microstructures that minimize material usage. However, a key challenge of low-density materials is balancing high stiffness with stable deformability up to large strain ...

2025

Topological Effects in Wave Scattering and Metamaterials

Haoye Qin

Advanced wave engineering demands robust, efficient, and new-degree-of-freedom manipulations in wave intrinsic properties like amplitude, phase, polarization, and even spatial structure. To tackle this, this thesis advances photonic wave manipulation by sy ...

EPFL2025

Vacuum-sealed silicon photonic MEMS tunable ring resonator with an independent control over coupling and phase

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Ring resonators are a vital element for filters, optical delay lines, or sensors in silicon photonics. However, reconfigurable ring resonators with low-power consumption are not available in foundries today. We demonstrate an add-drop ring resonator with t ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Cavity-Mediated Coupling of Terahertz Antiferromagnetic Resonators

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Marcin Bialek

Coupling of space-separated resonators is interesting for quantum and communication technologies. In this work, we show that antiferromagnetic resonance in separated parallel-plane slabs of hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) couple cooperatively to terahertz electroma ...

American Physical Society (APS)2023

Electrically tunable optical resonator on a chip for fast tunable integrated lasers

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Grigorii Likhachev

The present invention relates to an electrically tunable photonic resonator device for a component having a fast and flat actuation response, comprising: - At least one optical waveguide with an optical interface for coupling in laser light, - At least one ...

2022

A reprogrammable mechanical metamaterial with stable memory

Mark Pauly, Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Tian Chen

Metamaterials are designed to realize exotic physical properties through the geometric arrangement of their underlying structural layout(1,2). Traditional mechanical metamaterials achieve functionalities such as a target Poisson's ratio(3) or shape transfo ...

2021

Extension of Lorentz reciprocity and Poynting theorems for spatially dispersive media with quadrupolar responses

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri

We provide a self-consistent extension of the Lorentz reciprocity theorem and the Poynting theorem for media possessing electric and magnetic dipolar and quadrupolar responses related to electric and magnetic fields and field gradients thus corresponding t ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Helical structures with switchable and hierarchical chirality

Huijuan Feng

Chirality is present as a trend of research in biological and chemical communities for it has a significant effect on physiological properties and pharmacological effects. Further, manipulating specific morphological chirality recently has emerged as a pro ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Polariton relaxation and polariton nonlinearities in nonresonantly cw-pumped III-nitride slab waveguides

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Gordon Jens Callsen, Joachim Armand Simonne Ciers

Polariton lasers are mostly based on planar cavities. Here we focus on an alternative configuration with slab waveguide modes strongly coupled to excitons confined in GaN/AlGaN quantum wells. We study experimentally and theoretically polariton relaxation a ...

2020

Broadband quasi-phase-matching in dispersion-engineered all-optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Boris Zabelich

Quasi-phase-matching (QPM) has become one of the most common approaches for increasing the efficiency of nonlinear three-wave mixing processes in integrated photonic circuits. Here, we provide a study of dispersion engineering of QPM second-harmonic (SH) g ...

2020

Acoustic Supercoupling in a Zero-Compressibility Waveguide

Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

Funneling acoustic waves through largely mismatched channels is of fundamental importance to tailor and transmit sound for a variety of applications. In electromagnetics, zero-permittivity metamaterials have been used to enhance the coupling of energy in a ...

2019

Resonant Waveguide Gratings for Color-Selective Diffraction

Giorgio Quaranta

Resonant waveguide gratings (RWGs), also known as guided mode resonant (GMR) gratings or waveguide-mode resonant gratings, are dielectric structures where these resonant diffractive elements benefit from lateral leaky guided modes and can operate from UV t ...

EPFL2019

Zero refractive index in time-Floquet acoustic metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Theodoros Koutserimpas

New scientific investigations of artificially structured materials and experiments have exhibit wave manipulation to the extreme. In particular, zero refractive index metamaterials have been on the front line of wave physics research for their unique wave ...

2018

Acoustic metamaterial properties of a 2D closed cellular solid with entrained fluid

Vladimir Dorodnitsyn

Metamaterials are often defined as artificial compositions designed to exhibit desired physical properties. These materials attract a lot of research attention due to unusual behavior that may not yet have been seen in nature. Although there is no commonly ...

EPFL2016

Fluorescence and optical-resolution photoacoustic imaging through capillary waveguides

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Salma Farahi, Nicolino Stasio

Endoscopy can be used to obtain high-resolution images at large depths in biological tissues. Usually endoscopic devices have a diameter ranging from 1 to few millimeters. Using digital phase conjugation, it is possible to adapt ultrathin multimode fibers ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016