Alex, er J. Littlefield, Jinlong Zhu, Jonah F. Messinger, Lynford L. Goddard
{"title":"Photonic Nanojets","authors":"Alex, er J. Littlefield, Jinlong Zhu, Jonah F. Messinger, Lynford L. Goddard","doi":"10.1364/opn.32.1.000034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opn.32.1.000034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88113984","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}
K. Yang, J. Skarda, A. Dutt, G. H. Ahn, Mahmoud Sawaby, D. Vercruysse, A. Arbabian, S. Fan, J. Vučković, M. Cotrufo, A. Alú
{"title":"Nonreciprocal Devices in Silicon Photonics","authors":"K. Yang, J. Skarda, A. Dutt, G. H. Ahn, Mahmoud Sawaby, D. Vercruysse, A. Arbabian, S. Fan, J. Vučković, M. Cotrufo, A. Alú","doi":"10.1364/OPN.31.12.000038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.31.12.000038","url":null,"abstract":"Nonreciprocal devices are crucial components for optical communications, nonlinear signal processing and all-optical circuits in silicon-compatible photonic platforms, but traditional techniques for achieving nonreciprocity and isolation have lacked CMOS compatibility. In recent work, we combined state-of-the-art fabrication and inverse design to demonstrate bias-free, low-loss nonreciprocal transmission in silicon integrated devices.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"78 1","pages":"38-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73987302","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. Macêdo, C. McEleney, Mario González-Jiménez, X. Wu
{"title":"Unidirectional Light Propagation in Natural Crystals","authors":"R. Macêdo, C. McEleney, Mario González-Jiménez, X. Wu","doi":"10.1364/OPN.31.12.000053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.31.12.000053","url":null,"abstract":"In recent work, we showed that one-way light propagation, with respect to the incidence angle, can occur in simple, natural crystalline materials, such as crystal quartz, at far-infrared frequencies. Our results support the idea that natural crystals can serve as efficient and functional oriented asymmetric absorbers, features that have led to the use of materials such as the quartz we have studied in developing on-chip devices.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"41 1","pages":"53-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84908286","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":"Ultrafast Control of Microlasers","authors":"S. Xiao, Q. Song, Y. Kivshar","doi":"10.1364/OPN.31.12.000036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.31.12.000036","url":null,"abstract":"All-optical switching faces new requirements for next-generation optical and quantum computing, which put a premium on low energy consumption, high speed, strong modulation ratios and high-density integration. These requirements can pose severe design challenges. Recently, we have demonstrated an alternative approach to all-optical switching design, based on the physics of topologically protected optical bound states in the continuum, that can break some of these challenges.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"70 1","pages":"36-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86124589","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. Singh, M. Elkabbash, Zilong Li, Xiaohang Li, Bhabesh Regmi, M. Madsen, S. Jalil, Zhibing Zhan, Jihuang Zhang, Chunlei Guo
{"title":"Superwicking Black Metal Surface for Solar-Thermal Water Sanitation","authors":"S. Singh, M. Elkabbash, Zilong Li, Xiaohang Li, Bhabesh Regmi, M. Madsen, S. Jalil, Zhibing Zhan, Jihuang Zhang, Chunlei Guo","doi":"10.1364/OPN.31.12.000060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.31.12.000060","url":null,"abstract":"Wastewater recycling could be part of an environmentally feasible solution to an increasing global water crisis. In a recent work, we made a push toward that end, introducing a super-wicking, super-light-absorbing solar trackable panel for water sanitation.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75837355","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}
Apratim Majumder, Monjurul Meem, Sourangsu Banerji, B. Sensale‐Rodriguez, R. Menon
{"title":"Versatile Diffractive Flat Optics","authors":"Apratim Majumder, Monjurul Meem, Sourangsu Banerji, B. Sensale‐Rodriguez, R. Menon","doi":"10.1364/OPN.31.12.000043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.31.12.000043","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, we have shown that allowing the phase in the image plane of a flat lens to be a free parameter enables imaging properties of unprecedented versatility in flat, multilevel diffractive lenses through careful design of different diffractive surfaces. The properties we have shown in such flat lenses include super-achromaticity, extreme depth-of-focus and high numerical aperture. These flat lenses can be easily fabricated using one-step grayscale lithography.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"8 1","pages":"43-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74725837","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":"On-Chip Hybrid Plasmonics Goes Modular","authors":"A. Tuniz, S. Palomba, C. D. Sterke","doi":"10.1364/OPN.31.12.000039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.31.12.000039","url":null,"abstract":"Plasmonic devices enable extreme photonic miniaturization and extreme light–matter interactions, but their integration with conventional photonic circuits has proved challenging. In work that was published this year, we offered an approach for hybrid silicon–plasmonic devices that enables modular design of the plasmonic elements.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"143 1","pages":"39-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72893881","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}
David E. Couch, M. Murnane, D. Hickstein, H. Kapteyn
{"title":"High-Flux MHz Vacuum Ultraviolet Light Source","authors":"David E. Couch, M. Murnane, D. Hickstein, H. Kapteyn","doi":"10.1364/OPN.31.12.000034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.31.12.000034","url":null,"abstract":"An ideal vacuum ultraviolet light source for applications in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and photoionization mass spectrometry would have a high flux, a MHz repetition rate, a photon energy range from the UV to at least 15 eV, and variable energy and time resolution. This year, we reported a highly cascaded harmonic generation technique that addresses this challenge.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"46 1","pages":"34-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72908197","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}
Darya V. Spiryova, Alexei Yu. Vorobev, V. Klimontov, E. Koroleva, A. Moskalensky
{"title":"Activating Blood Platelets with an Optical Pulse","authors":"Darya V. Spiryova, Alexei Yu. Vorobev, V. Klimontov, E. Koroleva, A. Moskalensky","doi":"10.1364/OPN.31.12.000056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.31.12.000056","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the activation of blood platelets—the cells that stop blood flow and ensure that blood will not leak through small damage in blood vessels—is important, as this process plays a significant role in many pathological conditions. In work published this year, we introduced an optical method that can provide a superior insight into the dynamics of platelet activation.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"25 1","pages":"56-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73205977","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}
G. B. Vazquez, Axel M. Lacapmesure, M. Toscani, S. Martínez, O. E. Martínez
{"title":"Super-Resolution Microscopy from Standard Images","authors":"G. B. Vazquez, Axel M. Lacapmesure, M. Toscani, S. Martínez, O. E. Martínez","doi":"10.1364/OPN.31.12.000058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.31.12.000058","url":null,"abstract":"Edge detection in images is a key problem in quantitative cell biology, nanophotonics and other areas, but the edge-detection algorithms that have been developed suffer from serious limitations in precision. This year, we presented a computational method for super-resolution edge detection in single standard images that opens the possibility of detecting shapes of objects with features much smaller than the microscope’s point spread function.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"133 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73776455","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}