Recent advances in nano-opto-electro-mechanical systems
Nano-opto-electro-mechanical systems (NOEMS), considered as new platforms to study electronic and mechanical freedoms in the field of nanophotonics, have gained rapid progress in recent years. NOEMS offer exciting opportunities to manipulate information …
Recent advances in ultraviolet nanophotonics: from plasmonics and metamaterials to metasurfaces
Nanophotonic devices, composed of metals, dielectrics, or semiconductors, enable precise and high-spatial-resolution manipulation of electromagnetic waves by leveraging diverse light–matter interaction mechanisms at subwavelength length scales. Their …
Liquid crystal lasers: the last decade and the future
The demonstration of the first ruby laser in 1960 led to a revolution in science and technology. The lasers have significantly influenced the development of new approaches to spectroscopy, giving previously undreamed insights into physics, chemistry, and …
Aluminium nitride integrated photonics: a review
Integrated photonics based on silicon has drawn a lot of interests, since it is able to provide compact solution for functional devices, and its fabrication process is compatible with the mature complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication …
Ultrafast laser manufacturing of nanofluidic systems
In the last decades, research and development of microfluidics have made extraordinary progress, since they have revolutionized the biological and chemical fields as a backbone of lab-on-a-chip systems. Further advancement pushes to miniaturize the …
Enhanced electric field sensitivity of quantum dot/rod two-photon fluorescence and its relevance for cell transmembrane voltage imaging
The optoelectronic properties of semiconductor nanoparticles make them valuable candidates for the long-term monitoring of transmembrane electric fields in excitable cells. In this work, we show that the electric field sensitivity of the fluorescence …
Polariton lasing and energy-degenerate parametric scattering in non-resonantly driven coupled planar microcavities
Multi-level exciton-polariton systems offer an attractive platform for studies of non-linear optical phenomena. However, studies of such consequential non-linear phenomena as polariton condensation and lasing in planar microcavities have so far been limited …
Quantum exceptional chamber induced by large nondipole effect of a quantum dot coupled to a nano-plasmonic resonator
Exceptional points (EPs) are the singularities of a non-Hermitian system where the eigenenergies and eigenstates simultaneously coalesce, a topological property that gives rise to a plethora of exotic phenomena. Probing the EPs and associated effects requires …
Unmixing octopus camouflage by multispectral mapping of Octopus bimaculoides’ chromatic elements
Cephalopods camouflage abilities arise from highly specialized chromatic elements in their skin, chromatophores, iridophores, and leucophores, that enable them to display complex and rapidly changing color patterns. Despite the extensive study of these …
Adaptive optics enables multimode 3D super-resolution microscopy via remote focusing
A variety of modern super-resolution microscopy methods provide researchers with previously inconceivable biological sample imaging opportunities at a molecular resolution. All of these techniques excel at imaging samples that are close to the coverslip, …
One-dimensional planar topological laser
Topological interface states are formed when two photonic crystals with overlapping band gaps are brought into contact. In this work, we show a planar binary structure with such an interface state in the visible spectral region. Furthermore, we incorporate a …
Probing electron transport in plasmonic molecular junctions with two-photon luminescence spectroscopy
Plasmonic core–molecule–shell (CMS) nanojunctions provide a versatile platform for studying electron transport through conductive molecules under light excitation. In general, the impact of electron transport on the near-field response of CMS …
On-chip optical spatial-domain integrator based on Fourier optics and metasurface
Analog optical computing has been an innovation and research interest in last several years, thanks to the ultra-high speed (potential for real-time processing), ultra-low power consumption and capability of parallel processing. Although great efforts have …
Optical vortex lattice: an exploitation of orbital angular momentum
Generally, an optical vortex lattice (OVL) is generated via the superposition of two specific vortex beams. Thus far, OVL has been successfully employed to trap atoms via the dark cores. The topological charge (TC) on each optical vortex (OV) in the lattice …
Directional color routing assisted by switchable Fano resonance in bimetallic metagrating
Great progress in nanophotonics has been demonstrated in tailoring the impinging beams. The physics behind those intriguing effects is to a large extent governed by the parameter of the optical phase. While, simple nanostructures usually suffer from …
Self-assembled metal-oxide nanoparticles on GaAs: infrared absorption enabled by localized surface plasmons
Metal-oxides hold promise as superior plasmonic materials in the mid-infrared compared to metals, although their integration over established material technologies still remains challenging. We demonstrate localized surface plasmons in self-assembled, …
Autologous tumor antigens and boron nanosheet-based nanovaccines for enhanced photo-immunotherapy against immune desert tumors
Personalized therapeutic vaccines against immune desert tumors are an increasingly important field in current cancer immunotherapy. However, limitations in neoantigen recognition, impotent immune cells, and a lack of intratumoral infiltrated lymphocytes pose …