New ultrathin metasurface boosts optical power for quantum chips
Columbia Engineering researchers have taken another step toward shrinking quantum hardware. The team has created an ultrathin metasurface…
All-optical modulation with single photons using an electron avalanche
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Self-compressed waveform-stable light transients enabling water-window attosecond spectroscopy
We first demonstrate the creation and field-resolved characterization of light transients, focusing on generating sub-cycle pulses. For this…
Room-temperature spin-layer locking of exciton–polariton nonlinearities in a WS2 microcavity
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US scientists show light can move atoms in 2D semiconductors
Light isn’t just illuminating materials anymore, it’s moving them. Scientists at Rice University have discovered that beams of…
Quadrature-dependent lattice dynamics of dissipative microcombs
McDonald, A., Pereg-Barnea, T. & Clerk, A. A. Phase-dependent chiral transport and effective non-Hermitian dynamics in a bosonic…
Charge transfer governed interlayer magnetic coupling and symmetry breaking in a van der Waals magnet
Magnetic hysteresis switching in trilayer CrSBr devices Figure 1a shows the structure of a 3L CrSBr back-gate device. The…
Fano interference of photon pairs from a metasurface
Materials with zinc-blende crystalline structure, such as GaAs, AlGaAs, GaP, InGaP, etc, are particularly attractive for non-linear wave…
Temporal characterization of tunable few-cycle vacuum ultraviolet pulses
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All-optical polarization encoding and modulation by nonlinear interferometry at the nanoscale
Neshev, D. N. & Miroshnichenko, A. E. Enabling smart vision with metasurfaces. Nat. Photonics 17, 26–35 (2023). Article …
Ultrabroadband air-dielectric double-chirped mirrors for laser frequency combs
Design of pump-DUT dimension and measurement procedure As shown in Fig. 2a in the main text, broadband illumination…
Distinct terahertz nonlinear and Raman responses in cuprate superconductors Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x
Tinkham, M. Introduction to superconductivity. Second Edition, Dover Books on Physics (Courier Corporation, 2004). Kampfrath, T., Tanaka, K.…