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Optical vortex

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Doubly resonant second-harmonic generation of a vortex beam from a bound state in the continuum

Nicolas Grandjean, Romuald Houdré, Jean-François Carlin, Matteo Galli, Momchil Minkov, Marco Clementi, Jun Wang

Second-harmonic generation in nonlinear materials can be greatly enhanced by realizing doubly resonant cavities with high quality factors. However, fulfilling such doubly resonant condition in photonic crystal (PhC) slab cavities is a long-standing challen ...

2020

Optical Characterization of an Intra-Arterial Light and Drug Delivery System for Photodynamic Therapy of Atherosclerotic Plaque

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Andreas Pitzschke, Ying Xiao

Although the versatility of photodynamic therapy (PDT) is well established, the technical aspects of light delivery systems vary significantly depending on the targeted organ. This article describes the optical properties of a light and drug delivery syste ...

2020

Spatial wave control using a self-biased nonlinear metasurface at microwave frequencies

Ali Momeni

Recently, investigation of metasurfaces has been extended to wave control through exploiting nonlinearity. Among all of the ways to achieve tunable metasurfaces with multiplexed performances, nonlinearity is one of the promising choices. Although several p ...

2020

Controlling spatiotemporal nonlinearities in multimode fibers with deep neural networks

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Eirini Kakkava, Babak Rahmani, Ugur Tegin, Navid Borhani

Spatiotemporal nonlinear interactions in multimode fibers are of interest for beam shaping and frequency conversion by exploiting the nonlinear interaction of different pump modes from quasi-continuous wave to ultrashort pulses centered around visible to i ...

2020

Brillouin scattering in gas-filled hollow-core fibres

Flavien Gyger

Edward E. Hagenlocker and William G. Rado demonstrated Brillouin interaction in gas for the first time in 1965, right after the very first demonstrations of stimulated Brillouin scattering in solid materials. In their experiment, they used a megawatt pulse ...

EPFL2020

Characterizing crystalline defects in single nanoparticles from angular correlations of single-shot diffracted X-rays

Christoph Bostedt

Characterizing and controlling the uniformity of nanoparticles is crucial for their application in science and technology because crystalline defects in the nanoparticles strongly affect their unique properties. Recently, ultra-short and ultra-bright X-ray ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2020

All-Dielectric Programmable Huygens' Metasurfaces

Hatice Altug, Andreas Tittl, Aleksandrs Leitis

Low-loss nanostructured dielectric metasurfaces have emerged as a breakthrough platform for ultrathin optics and cutting-edge photonic applications, including beam shaping, focusing, and holography. However, the static nature of their constituent materials ...

2020

Inverse design and demonstration of high-performance wide-angle diffractive optical elements

Toralf Scharf, Dong Cheon Kim

Diffractive optical elements are ultra-thin optical components required for constructing very compact optical 3D sensors. However, the required wide-angle diffractive 2D fan-out gratings have been elusive due to design challenges. Here, we introduce a new ...

2020

Feature issue introduction: advanced computational nanophotonics: from materials to devices

Olivier Martin

Computational nanophotonics has already made a disruptive impact on the photonic and optoelectronic industries and has dramatically influenced the ways today's optical engineers create, optimize, and use innovative materials and computer-aided services. Th ...

2019

Contactless optical trapping and manipulation of nanoparticles utilizing SIBA mechanism and EDL force

On-chip optical tweezers based on evanescent fields overcome the diffraction limit of the free-space optical tweezers and can be a promising technique for developing lab-on-a-chip devices. While such trapping allows for low-cost and precise manipulation, i ...

2019

Ultrafast generation and control of an electron vortex beam via chiral plasmonic near fields

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Enrico Pomarico, Gabriele Berruto, Brett Eugene Barwick

Vortex-carrying matter waves, such as chiral electron beams, are of significant interest in both applied and fundamental science. Continuous-wave electron vortex beams are commonly prepared via passive phase masks imprinting a transverse phase modulation o ...

2019