270 papers
This paper presents a theoretical investigation into how inter-pulse delay and film thickness influence the laser-induced damage threshold and optical characteristics of thin metallic targets under double femtosecond pulse irradiation, aiming to optimize micromachining protocols for a wide range of industrial metals.
This letter proposes an obstruction-unaware, Pearcey-inspired quartic wavefront shaping strategy that enhances radiative near-field multi-user communications by generating structurally stable wave packets, achieving up to 8.5 dB SINR gain over conventional focusing by improving channel conditioning and mitigating noise amplification under partial blockage.
This paper introduces MetaMamba, a generative inverse design framework leveraging selective state space models (Mamba) to efficiently synthesize fabrication-ready, five-layer Huygens' metasurfaces with full-phase coverage and high transmission by combining a field-based semianalytical scheme with minimal full-wave simulation data.
This paper derives a quantitative, variance-based analytical expression demonstrating that in nonuniformly heated radiative-conductive systems, the reduction in mean temperature relative to an isothermal equilibrium is linearly proportional to the temperature variance, with a proportionality coefficient determined solely by the ambient temperature.
This paper experimentally demonstrates room-temperature, single-mode topological lasing in a valley photonic crystal by exploiting radiative leakage and material loss to establish a gain-loss balanced pathway, thereby clarifying the role of the loss landscape in active topological photonics and offering a scalable design for on-chip implementation.
This paper proposes a second-order supporting quadric method that reduces the calculation of refracting surface parameters to minimizing a convex function with analytically derived second derivatives, enabling efficient design of freeform surfaces for prescribed far-field irradiance distributions via mass transportation problems.
This paper demonstrates a record-breaking, air-stable, and bright entangled photon-pair source by encapsulating ferroelectric NbOI2 in graphene, which effectively suppresses environmental degradation and pump-induced heating to enable scalable on-chip quantum photonics.
This paper presents an extended theoretical framework for atomic-scale Stark-shift spectroscopy using light-assisted scanning tunneling microscopy to map subnanometric charge redistribution and polarizability changes in organic molecules under realistic, inhomogeneous electric fields.
This study demonstrates that optimizing the particle-to-droplet size ratio, particle position, and oil layer thickness significantly enhances the sensitivity and uniformity of fluorescence detection in droplet-based optomicrofluidic systems, enabling effective label-free particle detection and improved single-cell assays.
This paper reviews recent advancements in artificial flat band systems by focusing on the classification of flat band generators via compact localized states, the effects of disorder and many-body interactions, and the growing experimental realizations across diverse physical platforms.
This paper presents a diamond-based metal-insulator-metal campanile probe that adiabatically compresses mid-infrared light into sub-wavelength volumes, enabling high-efficiency, high-resolution mapping of locally driven photocurrents in graphene and offering a robust platform for exploring low-energy carrier dynamics in atomically thin materials.
This paper theoretically and numerically investigates light propagation in hyperuniform disordered photonic crystal slabs, revealing that intrinsic radiative loss (non-Hermiticity) fundamentally alters disorder scattering from a power-law dependence to a form dominated by a finite constant plus a modified power-law term, a finding validated through simulations with realistic parameters.
This paper establishes a comprehensive Fisher information-based framework for Rydberg atom microwave electrometry that derives an analytical sensitivity expression combining photon shot noise and atomic response, demonstrating that cesium vapor systems can achieve robust sub-nanovolt sensitivity under optimal conditions.
This paper presents an analytical and diagrammatic framework to calculate the leading-order three-photon wavefunction and non-Gaussian correlation signatures in a weakly coupled atomic ensemble, successfully validating these predictions with numerical simulations to advance the understanding of non-equilibrium quantum optics.
This paper develops a perturbative scattering theory to predict and validate that resonantly driven, weakly coupled atomic ensembles generate non-Gaussian light with a non-vanishing third-order correlation function, a phenomenon confirmed by simulations and anticipated to be observable in state-of-the-art nanofibre-coupled experiments.
This paper demonstrates a giant, electrically tunable enhancement of approximately 2000% in near-field nonlinear optical responses, such as second-harmonic generation, within an angstrom-scale plasmonic junction under a low 1-volt bias, thereby establishing a new platform for high-performance nonlinear electrophotonics across a broad mid-infrared to visible wavelength range.
This paper proposes an analog thermodynamic coprocessor based on open quantum systems that performs parallel vector-matrix multiplications with stochastic matrices in a time independent of input size by encoding inputs as reservoir occupancies and reading outputs as stationary energy flows, while establishing a direct mapping between these quantum dynamics and electrical crossbar structures.
This paper demonstrates the realization of synthetic gauge fields and robust chiral light transport on a programmable photonic processor by implementing discretized Floquet drives that combine static and dynamic phases to break time-reversal symmetry and engineer controllable directional flow.
This paper proposes a compact metasurface-based analyzer that simultaneously performs dual-basis polarization projections to efficiently witness quantum entanglement, thereby halving measurement overhead and enabling scalable chip-scale quantum technologies.
This paper demonstrates through large-scale simulations and analytical estimates that superradiance in disordered waveguide quantum electrodynamics remains robust against strong spatial and spectral disorder, driven by a spontaneous self-organization of spins that optimizes constructive interference and leads to mirror-asymmetric correlations.