Towards polarization steganography

This paper proposes and experimentally demonstrates a polarization-based steganographic scheme that utilizes partially polarized vector beams to encode hidden information within their spatially dependent polarization structures, enabling the selective retrieval of parametric shapes through spatial filtering and polarization-domain mapping.

Valeria Tena-Piñon, Atefeh Akbarpour, Przemyslaw Litwin, Adad Yepiz, Fernando Torres-Leal, Raul I. Hernandez-Aranda, Mateusz Szatkowski, Blas M. Rodriguez-Lara, Benjamin Perez-GarciaFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics.optics

Exceptional Optical Phonon Coherence in Enriched Cubic Boron Arsenide via Suppression of Three-Phonon Scattering

This study demonstrates that isotopically enriched cubic boron arsenide exhibits record-high optical phonon coherence below 100 K due to the near-elimination of three-phonon scattering, with high-resolution spectroscopy revealing that defect scattering is negligible compared to isotope scattering in determining phonon linewidths.

Tong Lin, Fengjiao Pan, Gaihua Ye, Sanjna Sukumaran, Cynthia Nnokwe, Ange Benise Niyikiza, William A. Smith, Stephen B. Bayne, Rui He, Zhifeng Ren, Hanyu ZhuFri, 13 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Full-channel wavefront manipulation of surface waves with chirality-assisted geometric-phase metasurface

This paper introduces a chirality-assisted geometric-phase metasurface that decouples co- and cross-polarized output channels to enable independent full-channel wavefront manipulation of surface waves, demonstrated through the simultaneous generation of multiple distinct beam types in the microwave range.

Shiqing Li, Min Kang, Jianru Li, Yueyi Yuan, Cong Liu, Xiaolong Liu, Juan Deng, Hang Zhang, Jinhua Yan, Linfang Shen, Bo Yan, Kuang Zhang, Lei Zhou, Shulin SunFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics.optics

Dynamic full-field swept-source optical coherence microscope for cellular-resolution, long-depth, and intratissue-activity imaging

This paper presents a spatially coherent full-field swept-source optical coherence microscope (SC-FFOCM) that combines computational refocusing and a repetitive acquisition protocol to achieve cellular-resolution, long-depth 3D imaging and visualize intra-tissue dynamic activities in human breast adenocarcinoma spheroids.

Nobuhisa Tateno, Yue Zhu, Suzuyo Komeda + 8 more2026-03-10🔬 physics.optics

Calibration-sample free distortion correction of electron diffraction patterns using deep learning

This paper presents a deep learning framework that corrects optical distortions in electron diffraction patterns without requiring calibration samples or prior knowledge of the reciprocal lattice, achieving superior accuracy over conventional methods for medium and large disk patterns while enhancing experimental ptychographic reconstructions.

Matthew R. C. Fitzpatrick, Arthur M. Blackburn, Cristina Cordoba2026-03-10🔬 physics.optics

Impact of scissors-correction schemes on second-harmonic generation in ultraviolet nonlinear-optical crystals

This study introduces a unified static-limit formulation to compare two scissors-correction schemes for calculating second-harmonic generation in ultraviolet nonlinear-optical crystals, revealing that while both preserve spectral shapes, scheme-N yields systematically larger magnitudes and that apparent violations of Kleinman symmetry in practice stem from sum-rule approximations rather than the underlying theory.

YingXing Cheng, Zhihua Yang, Shilie Pan2026-03-06🔬 physics.optics

Self-organization of cavity solitons in Brillouin-Kerr ring resonators

This study demonstrates that the interplay between four-wave mixing and cascade Brillouin lasing in coherently driven passive optical-fibre resonators spontaneously generates highly stable, paracrystalline patterns of temporal cavity solitons locked by long-range acoustic oscillations, a phenomenon accurately described by a unified mean-field model.

Corentin Simon, Matteo Conforti, Loïc Van Bellinghen + 4 more2026-03-06🔬 physics.optics

Integrated Microcomb-Driven Vortex Electromagnetic Waves for Broadband Forward-looking Sensing

This paper presents a chip-scale microwave photonic architecture using a dissipative Kerr soliton microcomb to generate broadband, high-purity vortex electromagnetic waves with 15 programmable orbital angular momentum modes, enabling superior forward-looking sensing that overcomes the diffraction limits of conventional microwave systems.

Guanqun Sun, Zhekai Zheng, Jiacheng Guo + 6 more2026-03-06🔬 physics.optics

Beam Geometry-Controlled Nonequilibrium Formation of WS2/CsPbBr3 Hybrids and Interfacial Carrier Dynamics

This study demonstrates that using femtosecond Bessel beam laser ablation, rather than Gaussian beams, enables the scalable, defect-controlled synthesis of WS2/CsPbBr3 hybrids with optimized interfacial carrier dynamics and extended lifetimes by leveraging axially extended energy distribution to minimize thermal damage while exceeding electronic destabilization thresholds.

Rajendra Kumar Challa, M. S. S. Bharathi, Rahul Murali + 2 more2026-03-06🔬 physics.optics