Joel. F. Siegel, Jonathan H. Dwyer, P. Gopalan, V. Brar
{"title":"Non-local effects in graphene plasmonic devices operating at short wavelength infrared frequencies","authors":"Joel. F. Siegel, Jonathan H. Dwyer, P. Gopalan, V. Brar","doi":"10.1117/12.2594395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594395","url":null,"abstract":"Plasmons in graphene are known to be tunable and to exhibit extreme field confinement, making them useful for optoelectronic devices, and for exploring extreme light matter interactions. Thus far, these effects have been demonstrated at Thz to mid-IR frequencies, with the upper frequency limit set by limits of electron beam lithography, which can make graphene nanostructures as small as 15nm. In this talk, I will show that bottom-up block co-polymer lithography methods can create nanostructures with characteristic lengthscales as small as 12nm, and that in this regime the non-local interactions in graphene become strong, creating a significant blue shift of the plasmonic resonances. This allows for the creation of plasmonic cavities with resonances at wavelengths as short as 2.2um. The confinement factors of these cavities reach 135, which is exceedingly large, but less than what has been predicted by theory.","PeriodicalId":112265,"journal":{"name":"Active Photonic Platforms XIII","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133589565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anisotropic 2D layered materials for infrared photonics and polaritonics","authors":"Koray Aydin","doi":"10.1117/12.2594241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594241","url":null,"abstract":"In this talk, I will introduce MoO3 as an anisotropic photonic and polaritonic material. MoO3 is a layered material that exhibits both in and out-of-the-plane anisotropic polaritonic response at mid-IR wavelengths. We designed and experimentally demonstrated an anisotropic polaritonic absorber and showed that one can couple to all phonon modes and address them individually either using structural tunability or polarization control of incident infrared radiation. I will also discuss our experimental investigations of the birefringent optical properties of MoO3 in visible frequencies. By constructing MoO3 based Fabry-Perot resonator, we observed strong polarization-dependent tunability of the Fabry-Perot resonance due to different refractive index of MoO3 for different crystal directions.","PeriodicalId":112265,"journal":{"name":"Active Photonic Platforms XIII","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128336104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. M. Hasan, S. Sharifi, Y. Banadaki, G. Veronis, M. Gartia
{"title":"Introducing an optoplasmonic amplifier operating in visible range and generating raman signal internally with injection seeding","authors":"S. M. Hasan, S. Sharifi, Y. Banadaki, G. Veronis, M. Gartia","doi":"10.1117/12.2594648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594648","url":null,"abstract":"Resonant propagation of light is important for building novel light source and chip-scale optical interconnects. Here, we introduced an optoplasmonic amplifier which is operating in the visible range and generating Raman signal internally with injection seeding. We introduced the microspheres as a chain with different arrangements such as – single sphere; two spheres with equal and unequal sizes; three spheres with equal sizes and multi spheres with different sizes. We analyzed the effect of excitation and polarization with respect to different spheres and position of excitation. We noticed a shift of mode position with respect to different sizes of microspheres. We also had different kind of underlying substrates such as silicon nanopillar, polymer nanopillar, pyramid polymer and nanohole polymer and investigate the effect of these substrates on various chains of microspheres.","PeriodicalId":112265,"journal":{"name":"Active Photonic Platforms XIII","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129845336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Osgood, S. Dinneen, Yassine Ait El Aoud, M. Manser, L. Deravi, Daniel J. Wilson, Jin Ho Kim, Jimmy Xu, D. Morse, M. Gordon, Katrina Burch
{"title":"Dynamically field-reconfigurable photonically-functional wide-spectrum cells","authors":"R. Osgood, S. Dinneen, Yassine Ait El Aoud, M. Manser, L. Deravi, Daniel J. Wilson, Jin Ho Kim, Jimmy Xu, D. Morse, M. Gordon, Katrina Burch","doi":"10.1117/12.2594602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594602","url":null,"abstract":"Gaining active, reconfigurable control of optical properties in photonic devices is challenging. Dynamic visible and near-infrared scattering occurs, from cephalopod chromatophore color-producing organs atop iridophores, Bragg stacks consisting of reflectin protein. We present a model, using our broadband refractive indices for xanthommatin, the chromatophore pigment, of the combined chromatophore and iridophore system, a dynamically tunable photonic device in Nature that responds across the visible-near-infrared. We also report on a broadband light-scattering sub-wavelength-periodicity metasurface composed of ferromagnetic islands. This magnetic metasurface is potentially rectifying. By applying a magnetic field, nonlinear optoelectronic properties such as light scattering and optical rectification can be reconfigured. The large tunability of both these electrically- and magnetically-reconfigurable photonic platforms may enable better detectors, new computing architectures, etc.","PeriodicalId":112265,"journal":{"name":"Active Photonic Platforms XIII","volume":"303 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123200691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Sokhoyan, M. Grajower, E. Feigenbaum, S. Elhadj, H. Atwater
{"title":"Electrically controlled active metasurfaces for free space optical communications","authors":"R. Sokhoyan, M. Grajower, E. Feigenbaum, S. Elhadj, H. Atwater","doi":"10.1117/12.2594984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594984","url":null,"abstract":"Active metasurfaces designed to operate at optical frequencies are a new class of flat optical elements that can dynamically control the wavefront of the reflected or transmitted light at a subwavelength scale. Here, we estimate the feasibility of using gate-tunable conducting oxide metasurfaces as electrically steerable apertures for free space optical communications. Our optical link budget analysis shows that for pulse energies of 1 mJ, free space optical communication at distances of 100000 km is possible. We further elaborate our analysis by adopting a system design approach and refining our optical link budget analysis.","PeriodicalId":112265,"journal":{"name":"Active Photonic Platforms XIII","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130108143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Wan, D. Woolf, C. Hessel, Jad Salman, Yuzhe Xiao, Albert G. Wright, J. Hensley, M. Kats
{"title":"Switchable thin-film filters enabled by the phase transition of vanadium dioxide","authors":"C. Wan, D. Woolf, C. Hessel, Jad Salman, Yuzhe Xiao, Albert G. Wright, J. Hensley, M. Kats","doi":"10.1117/12.2594032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594032","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrated the fabrication of thin-film stacks comprising mid-infrared-transparent dielectric layers and active optical materials, enabling the creation of tunable mid-infrared filters. In particular, we designed and fabricated an induced-transmission filter (ITF)—a dielectric thin-film filter that uses an ultrathin metal layer to remove unwanted sidebands around a desired passband—where the metal layer is replaced by a prototype phase-transition material, vanadium dioxide (VO2). We designed filters with one or more tunable passbands, and experimentally demonstrated a filter that switches between a broadband transmission window in the mid infrared (8 – 12 µm) and a narrow passband centered around 8.8 µm.","PeriodicalId":112265,"journal":{"name":"Active Photonic Platforms XIII","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134152326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In-situ detection of physical and chemical changes in plasmonic nanocavity","authors":"T. Habteyes, Bisweswar Patra, B. Kafle","doi":"10.1117/12.2594357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594357","url":null,"abstract":"In-situ observation of light-induced physico-chemical changes is a long sought experimental approach to gain mechanistic understanding of the underlying fundamental processes. Here, we present experimental results that demonstrate the possibility of using plasmonic nanocavity for inducing and observing physical and chemical changes. This is demonstrated by monitoring photons scattered by a plasmonic nanocavity, in which materials of interest (organic and inorganic systems) are embedded.","PeriodicalId":112265,"journal":{"name":"Active Photonic Platforms XIII","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131787104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Litchinitser, Jiannan Gao, Liang Feng, M. Scalora, M. Vincenti, J. Frantz
{"title":"From passive to active structured light sources","authors":"N. Litchinitser, Jiannan Gao, Liang Feng, M. Scalora, M. Vincenti, J. Frantz","doi":"10.1117/12.2595605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2595605","url":null,"abstract":"Unique optical properties of optical nanostructures open unlimited opportunities for sculpting light. We discuss recent developments in passive and active nanophotonic structures that allow dramatically altering such properties of light as amplitude, phase, polarization, frequency and angular momentum. First, we consider linear and nonlinear optical metasurfaces, nano-patterned layers with subwavelength thickness that enable versatile control of the topology of light as well as novel regimes of frequency conversion. Next, we discuss our recent studies of orbital angular momentum microlasers and laser arrays based on the properties of total momentum conservation, spin-orbit interaction, and optical non-Hermitian symmetry breaking. These studies may provide a route for the development of the next generation of optoelectronic devices for classical and quantum communication systems.","PeriodicalId":112265,"journal":{"name":"Active Photonic Platforms XIII","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114838273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating non-trivial space-time correlation with wavevector-space metasurface","authors":"S. Fan","doi":"10.1117/12.2592070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2592070","url":null,"abstract":"We show that wavevector-space metasurface can be used to achieve non-trivial correlation between the frequency and the momentum of light. As applications we demonstrate squeezing of free space, generation of meron textures, and creation of the three dimensional light bullets.","PeriodicalId":112265,"journal":{"name":"Active Photonic Platforms XIII","volume":"369 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123950521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Light-to-heat dissipation in nanoscale structures: from ultrafast optical modulation to steam generation","authors":"A. Alabastri","doi":"10.1117/12.2595467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2595467","url":null,"abstract":"Nanostructures store energy differently upon interaction with radiation, depending on the considered time scale, system size, and interacting components. Properly designed nanostructured surfaces confine electromagnetic energy, making it available as high energy electrons and confined fields, far-field scattering, heat or thermal radiation. This talk will show how the spatially inhomogeneous electromagnetic absorption in metallic nanostructures leads to a space-dependent out-of-equilibrium hot carrier population, whose < 1 ps thermalization can be exploited for ultrafast all-optical polarization modulation. Eventually, heat is generated through a slower electron-phonon scattering process. I will show how ultrathin (~250nm) plasmonic metasurfaces can absorb ~90% of the solar spectrum, leading to ~GW/m3 of dissipated power exploited, for example, for steam generation, relevant for sterilization or water desalination applications.","PeriodicalId":112265,"journal":{"name":"Active Photonic Platforms XIII","volume":"300 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116217573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}