arXiv: OpticsPub Date : 2020-11-16DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVA.103.043703
A. Nikolaeva, K. Frizyuk, N. Olekhno, A. Solntsev, M. Petrov
{"title":"Directional emission of down-converted photons from a dielectric nanoresonator","authors":"A. Nikolaeva, K. Frizyuk, N. Olekhno, A. Solntsev, M. Petrov","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVA.103.043703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.103.043703","url":null,"abstract":"Creation of correlated photon pairs is one of the key topics in contemporary quantum optics. Here, we theoretically describe the generation of photon pairs in the process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a resonant spherical nanoparticle made of a dielectric material with bulk $chi^{(2)}$ nonlinearity. We pick the nanoparticle size that satisfies the condition of resonant eigenmodes described by Mie theory. We reveal that highly directional photon-pair generation can be observed utilising the nonlinear Kerker-type effect, and that this regime provides useful polarisation correlations.","PeriodicalId":304443,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Optics","volume":"45 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114121234","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}
arXiv: OpticsPub Date : 2020-11-14DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.054039
Brian O. Raeker, A. Grbic
{"title":"Lossless Complex-Valued Optical-Field Control with Compound Metaoptics","authors":"Brian O. Raeker, A. Grbic","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.054039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.054039","url":null,"abstract":"Forming a desired optical field distribution from a given source requires precise spatial control of a field's amplitude and phase. Low-loss metasurfaces that allow extreme phase and polarization control of optical fields have been demonstrated over the past few years. However, metasurfaces that provide amplitude control have remained lossy, utilizing mechanisms such as reflection, absorption, or polarization loss to control amplitude. Here, we describe the amplitude and phase manipulation of optical fields without loss, by using two lossless phase-only metasurfaces separated by a distance. We first demonstrate a combined beam-former and splitter optical component using this approach. Next, we show a high-quality computer-generated three-dimensional hologram. The proposed metaoptic platform combines the advantage of lossless, complex-valued field control with a physically small thickness. This approach could lead to low-profile, three-dimensional holographic displays, compact optical components, and high precision optical tweezers for micro-particle manipulation.","PeriodicalId":304443,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Optics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114289023","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}
arXiv: OpticsPub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVRESEARCH.3.013249
I. Tutunnikov, Long Xu, R. Field, K. Nelson, Y. Prior, I. Averbukh
{"title":"Enantioselective orientation of chiral molecules induced by terahertz pulses with twisted polarization","authors":"I. Tutunnikov, Long Xu, R. Field, K. Nelson, Y. Prior, I. Averbukh","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVRESEARCH.3.013249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVRESEARCH.3.013249","url":null,"abstract":"Chirality and chiral molecules are key elements in modern chemical and biochemical industries. Individual addressing, and the eventual separation of chiral enantiomers has been and still is an important elusive task in molecular physics and chemistry, and a variety of methods has been introduced over the years to achieve this goal. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that a pair of cross-polarized THz pulses interacting with chiral molecules through their permanent dipole moments induces an enantioselective orientation of these molecules. This orientation persists for a long time, exceeding the duration of the THz pulses by several orders of magnitude, and its dependency on temperature and pulses' parameters is investigated. The persistent orientation may enhance the deflection of the molecules in inhomogeneous electromagnetic fields, potentially leading to viable separation techniques.","PeriodicalId":304443,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Optics","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124304238","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}
arXiv: OpticsPub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.102.245406
D. Pidgayko, Z. Sadrieva, K. Ladutenko, A. Bogdanov
{"title":"Polarization-controlled selective excitation of Mie resonances in a dielectric nanoparticle on a coated substrate","authors":"D. Pidgayko, Z. Sadrieva, K. Ladutenko, A. Bogdanov","doi":"10.1103/physrevb.102.245406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.245406","url":null,"abstract":"High-index spherical nanoparticles with low material losses support sharp high-Q electric and magnetic resonances and exhibit a number of interesting optical phenomena. Developments in fabrication techniques have enabled the further study of their properties and the investigation of related optical effects. After deposition on a substrate, the optical properties of a particle change dramatically due to mutual interaction. Here, we consider a silicon spherical nanoparticle on a dielectric one-layered substrate. At the normal incidence of light, the layer thickness controls the contribution of the nanoparticle's electric and magnetic multipoles to the subsequent optical response. We show that changing the polarization of incident light at a specific excitation angle and layer thickness leads to switching between the multipoles. We further observe a related polarization-driven control over the direction of the scattered radiation.","PeriodicalId":304443,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Optics","volume":"2008 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128972387","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}
arXiv: OpticsPub Date : 2020-11-09DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.102.214202
D. Torrent
{"title":"Strong spatial dispersion in time-modulated dielectric media","authors":"D. Torrent","doi":"10.1103/physrevb.102.214202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.214202","url":null,"abstract":"We present an effective medium description of time-modulated dielectric media. By taking the averaged fields over one modulation period, the relationship between them is derived, defining therefore the different constitutive parameters. In the most general situation, it is found that the effective material is described by means of a spatially and temporally dispersive transverse dielectric function and a constant longitudinal dielectric function. It has been also found that the frequency dependence in the former is weak, in comparison with its wavenumber-dependence (spatial dispersion). Different physical consequences of this spatial dispersion are discussed, with special emphasis in the weak dispersion approximation, limit in which it is found that the effective material behaves as a resonant and isotropic magnetodielectric medium with no additional longitudinal mode, as it is commonly found in spatially dispersive materials. Time-dependent media opens therefore an alternative way of designing dynamically tunable metamaterials.","PeriodicalId":304443,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Optics","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132184328","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}
arXiv: OpticsPub Date : 2020-11-09DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.024047
D. Bouchet, Jonathan Dong, Dante Maestre, T. Juffmann
{"title":"Fundamental Bounds on the Precision of Classical Phase Microscopes","authors":"D. Bouchet, Jonathan Dong, Dante Maestre, T. Juffmann","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.024047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.024047","url":null,"abstract":"A wide variety of imaging systems have been designed to measure phase variations, with applications from physics to biology and medicine. In this work, we theoretically compare the precision of phase estimations achievable with classical phase microscopy techniques, operated at the shot-noise limit. We show how the Cram'er-Rao bound is calculated for any linear optical system, including phase-contrast microscopy, phase-shifting holography, spatial light interference microscopy, and local optimization of wavefronts for phase imaging. Our results show that wavefront shaping is required to design phase microscopes with optimal phase precision.","PeriodicalId":304443,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Optics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124140480","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}
arXiv: OpticsPub Date : 2020-11-07DOI: 10.1364/OSAC.425189
Tatsuki Hinamoto, M. Fujii
{"title":"MENP: an open-source MATLAB implementation of multipole expansion for nanophotonics","authors":"Tatsuki Hinamoto, M. Fujii","doi":"10.1364/OSAC.425189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OSAC.425189","url":null,"abstract":"In modern nanophotonics, multipolar interference plays an indispensable role to realize novel optical devices represented by metasurfaces with unprecedented functionalities. Not only to engineer sub-wavelength structures that constitute such devices but also to realize and interpret unnatural phenomena in nanophotonics, a program that efficiently carries out multipole expansion is highly demanded. MENP is a MATLAB program for computation of multipole contributions to light scattering from current density distributions induced in nanophotonic resonators. The main purpose of MENP is to carry out post-processing of a rigid multipole expansion for full-field simulations which in principle provide the information of all near- and far-field interactions (e.g. as a total scattering cross section). MENP decomposes total scattering cross sections into partial ones due to electric and magnetic dipoles and higher-order terms based on recently developed exact multipole expansion formulas. We validate the program by comparing results for ideal and realistic nanospheres with those obtained with the Mie theory. We also demonstrate the potential of MENP for analysis of anapole states by calculating the multipole expansion under the long-wavelength approximation which enables us to introduce toroidal dipole moments.","PeriodicalId":304443,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Optics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128422336","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}
arXiv: OpticsPub Date : 2020-11-06DOI: 10.2528/pierb20102206
Ozum Emre Acsirim, Alim Yolalmaz
{"title":"DESIGN OF ULTRA-HIGH GAIN OPTICAL MICRO-AMPLIFIERS VIA SMART NON-LINEAR WAVE MIXING","authors":"Ozum Emre Acsirim, Alim Yolalmaz","doi":"10.2528/pierb20102206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/pierb20102206","url":null,"abstract":"Optical amplification of the input wave by mixing the pump wave within a nonlinear interaction medium offers high gain for a variety of applications. In real life studies, the interaction mediums which allow the optical amplification of the input wave have many resonance frequencies. However, the computational expense for tuning the pump frequency to yield the optical amplification of the input wave increases with the number of resonance frequencies within the interaction mediums. Here, we present a Fletcher-Reeves based algorithm for parametric amplification in micro-resonators having multiple resonance frequencies. Using our novel mathematical formulations, we obtained a gain of 4.7x107 for the input wave at 640 THz and a gain of 1.5x108 for the input wave at 100 THz within the micro-resonators. Moreover, the performance of our algorithm is verified by the well know mathematical expression, and we achieved more than 99% accuracy in computation of optical amplification. To our knowledge, this is the first study where Fletcher-Reeves algorithm is used for the parametric amplification. Our methodology can be accompanied to design optical parametric amplifiers for applications of high-speed optical communications, photonic circuits, and ultrafast lasers.","PeriodicalId":304443,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Optics","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128385163","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}
arXiv: OpticsPub Date : 2020-11-02DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.045422
Weijin Chen, Qingdong Yang, Yuntian Chen, Wei Liu
{"title":"Arbitrary polarization-independent backscattering or reflection by rotationally symmetric reciprocal structures","authors":"Weijin Chen, Qingdong Yang, Yuntian Chen, Wei Liu","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.045422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.045422","url":null,"abstract":"We study the backward scatterings of plane waves by reciprocal scatterers and reveal that $n$-fold ($ngeq3$) rotation symmetry is sufficient to secure invariant backscattering for arbitrarily-polarized incident plane waves. It is further demonstrated that the same principle is also applicable for infinite periodic structures in terms of reflection, which simultaneously guarantees the transmission invariance if there are neither Ohmic losses nor extra diffraction channels. At the presence of losses, extra reflection symmetries (with reflection planes either parallel or perpendicular to the incident direction) can be incorporated to ensure simultaneously the invariance of transmission and absorption. The principles we have revealed are protected by fundamental laws of reciprocity and parity conservation, which are fully independent of the optical or geometric parameters of the photonic structures. The optical invariance obtained is intrinsically robust against perturbations that preserve reciprocity and the geometric symmetries, which could be widely employed for photonic applications that require stable backscatterings or reflections.","PeriodicalId":304443,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Optics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129526239","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}
arXiv: OpticsPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1063/5.0042532
Alim Yolalmaz, E. Yüce
{"title":"Spectral splitting and concentration of broadband light using neural networks","authors":"Alim Yolalmaz, E. Yüce","doi":"10.1063/5.0042532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0042532","url":null,"abstract":"Compact photonic elements that control both the diffraction and interference of light offer superior performance at ultra-compact dimensions. Unlike conventional optical structures, these diffractive optical elements can provide simultaneous control of spectral and spatial profile of light. However, the inverse-design of such a diffractive optical element is time-consuming with current algorithms, and the designs generally lack experimental validation. Here, we develop a neural network model to experimentally design and validate SpliCons; a special type of diffractive optical element that can achieve simultaneous concentration and spectral splitting of broadband light. We use neural networks to exploit nonlinear operations that result from wavefront reconstruction through a phase plate. Our results show that the neural network model yields enhanced spectral splitting performance for phase plates with quantitative assessment compared to phase plates that are optimized via local search optimization algorithm. The capabilities of the phase plates optimized via neural network are experimentally validated by comparing the intensity distribution at the output plane. Once the neural networks are trained, we manage to design SpliCons with 96.8% accuracy within 2 seconds, which is orders of magnitude faster than iterative search algorithms. We openly share the fast and efficient framework that we develop in order to contribute to the design and implementation of diffractive optical elements that can lead to transformative effects in microscopy, spectroscopy, and solar energy applications.","PeriodicalId":304443,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Optics","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133640671","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}