Publications associées à Ultrafast dynamic switching of optical response based on nonlinear hyperbolic metamaterial platform (vol 30, pg 21634, 2022)

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Exciton migration in two-dimensional materials

Excitons play an essential role in the optical response of two-dimensional materials. These are bound states showing up in the band gaps of many-body systems and are conceived as quasiparticles formed by an electron and a hole. By performing real-time simu ...

Nature Portfolio2024

A Cavity-Microscope for Quantum Simulations with Locally-Controllable All-to-All Interactions

Nick Jacob Sauerwein

This thesis presents the development, construction, and benchmark of an experimental platform that combines cold fermionic 6Li atoms with locally controllable light-matter interactions. To enable local control, a new device, the cavity-microscope, was crea ...

EPFL2024

Generation and control of localized terahertz fields in photoemitted electron plasmas

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Dense micron-sized electron plasmas, such as those generated upon irradiation of nanostructured metallic surfaces by intense femtosecond laser pulses, constitute a rich playground to study light-matter interactions, many-body phenomena, and out-of-equilibr ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Photonic assembly tunable via the pockels effect and method for use in frequency-modulated lidar

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A photonic assembly, a laser setup comprising said photonic assembly and a method for performing frequency-modulated continuous-wave light detection and ranging using said laser setup are disclosed. The photonic assembly (1) comprises an active photonic ch ...

2023

Linear and nonlinear applications of miniaturized silicon nitride microresonators

Arslan Sajid Raja

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are the subject of massive interest due to the range of applications they can provide at a huge scale while building on well-established CMOS technologies. One of the critical parameters defining a technology's maturity ...

EPFL2023

Resonators with tailored optical path by cascaded-mode conversions

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Optical resonators enable the generation, manipulation, and storage of electromagnetic waves. The physics underlying their operation is determined by the interference of electromagnetic waves, giving rise to the resonance spectrum. This mechanism causes th ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Ultrafast dynamic switching of optical response based on nonlinear hyperbolic metamaterial platform

Jiaye Wu

The pursuit of high-speed and on-chip optical communication systems has promoted extensive exploration of all-optical control of light-matter interactions via nonlinear optical processes. Here, we have numerically investigated the ultrafast dynamic switchi ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Microwave-optical transduction with intergrated gallium phospide devices

Tobias Kippenberg, Alberto Beccari

Optomechanical resonators provide a route to interconversion of microwave and optical photons for quantum interconnects. We present a platform comprising a GaP photonic crystal cavity integrated on prefabricated niobium circuits, with mechanical modes at s ...

IEEE2022

Optical metasurfaces: synthesis, nanofabrication, and colorful applications

Hsiang-Chu Wang

In this thesis, we mainly utilize silver to construct the meta-atoms. Although suffering from easily oxidized, its excellent lossless property throughout the visible range makes it suitable for study. When preserved properly, silver-made metasurfaces can s ...

EPFL2022

Millimeter-wave to near-terahertz sensors based on reversible insulator-to-metal phase transition in Vanadium dioxide

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Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) and terahertz (THz) detection has opened a significant research direction in imaging, sensing, spectroscopy, and ultrafast wireless communication. The sensitivity of the phase transition to electromagnetic waves in Vanadium dioxid ...

EPFL2022

Controlling the magnetic and electric responses of dielectric nanoparticles via near-field coupling

Olivier Martin, Andrei Kiselev

Among the two materials families used in nanophotonics, the fundamental mode for metal nanostructures is electric, while that for dielectric nanostructures is magnetic. Consequently, the optical properties of hybrid dimers that incorporate both materials h ...

2022

All-optical switching in epsilon-near-zero asymmetric directional coupler

Jiaye Wu

We propose an all-optical switch based on an asymmetric directional coupler structure with epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) layer. The nonlinear optical properties the of ENZ layer are analyzed by hot-electron dynamics process, and the all-optical operating perform ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Investigation of photoinduced effects in plasmonic nanocavities

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Light matter interaction can be boosted by several orders of magnitude by tailoring the photonic environment, thus enabling a wide range of applications. One particular example are plasmonic nanostructures that support localized surface plasmon polariton ( ...

EPFL2021

Highly efficient THz four-wave mixing in doped silicon

Gabriel Aeppli

Third-order non-linearities are important because they allow control over light pulses in ubiquitous high-quality centro-symmetric materials like silicon and silica. Degenerate four-wave mixing provides a direct measure of the third-order non-linear sheet ...

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Nonlinear plasmonics with monocrystalline gold

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Plasmonic nanostructures allow to controllably enhance linear and nonlinear light-matter interactions by concentrating the electromagnetic fields at the scales below the diffraction limit. This feature is highly desired for many applications, e.g. bio- and ...

2021

Intrinsic luminescence blinking from plasmonic nanojunctions

Tobias Kippenberg, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Giulia Tagliabue, Wen Chen, Sachin Suresh Verlekar, Karla Banjac, Philippe Andreas Rölli, Aqeel Ahmed

Plasmonic nanojunctions, consisting of adjacent metal structures with nanometre gaps, can support localised plasmon resonances that boost light matter interactions and concentrate electromagnetic fields at the nanoscale. In this regime, the optical respons ...

Nature Research2021

Controlling Free Electrons with Optical Whispering-Gallery Modes

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We show that optical microcavities drive strong coherent modulations the in co-propagating free-electron beams, with sidebands spanning over 700eV from a sub-mu m-long interaction. The electrons probe the cavity's ringdown time and distinguish the modes sp ...

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Dynamics and Applications of Dissipative Kerr Solitons

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Optical frequency combs are optical sources, which spectrum consists of a series of equally spaced narrowband frequencies. They made an outstanding leap forward in the accuracy of optical frequency metrology and became an attractive tool for numerous appli ...

EPFL2020

Diffractive optical elements in single crystal diamond

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss

We demonstrate the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of near-field binary phase transmission diffractive optical elements (DOEs) in single crystal diamond. Top-hat and arbitrary pattern DOE beam shapers were numerically optimized using ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Tilted-potential photonic crystal cavities for integrated quantum photonics

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Benjamin Dwir, Alexey Lyasota, Bruno Marie Dominique Rigal, Antoine Maxime Delgoffe, Alessio Massimiliano Davide Miranda

We propose and investigate a new type of photonic crystal (PhC) cavity for integrated quantum photonics, which provides tailored optical modes with both confined and extended spatial components. The structures consist of elongated PhC cavities in which the ...

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