Metasurface micro/nano-optical sensors: principles and applications

J Qin, S Jiang, Z Wang, X Cheng, B Li, Y Shi, DP Tsai… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metasurfaces are 2D artificial materials consisting of arrays of metamolecules, which are
exquisitely designed to manipulate light in terms of amplitude, phase, and polarization state …

Ultrastrong coupling regimes of light-matter interaction

P Forn-Díaz, L Lamata, E Rico, J Kono, E Solano - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
Recent experiments have demonstrated that light and matter can mix together to an extreme
degree, and previously uncharted regimes of light-matter interactions are currently being …

Towards optimal single-photon sources from polarized microcavities

H Wang, YM He, TH Chung, H Hu, Y Yu, S Chen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
An optimal single-photon source should deterministically deliver one, and only one, photon
at a time, with no trade-off between the source's efficiency and the photon …

Nonreciprocal superradiant phase transitions and multicriticality in a cavity QED system

GL Zhu, CS Hu, H Wang, W Qin, XY Lü, F Nori - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We demonstrate the emergence of nonreciprocal superradiant phase transitions and novel
multicriticality in a cavity quantum electrodynamics system, where a two-level atom interacts …

Interfacing single photons and single quantum dots with photonic nanostructures

P Lodahl, S Mahmoodian, S Stobbe - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Photonic nanostructures provide a means of tailoring the interaction between light and
matter and the past decade has witnessed tremendous experimental and theoretical …

Imaging topological edge states in silicon photonics

M Hafezi, S Mittal, J Fan, A Migdall, JM Taylor - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Topological features—global properties not discernible locally—emerge in systems ranging
from liquid crystals to magnets to fractional quantum Hall systems. A deeper understanding …

Dielectric microcavities: Model systems for wave chaos and non-Hermitian physics

H Cao, J Wiersig - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
This is a review on theoretical and experimental studies on dielectric microcavities, which
play a significant role in fundamental and applied research. The basic concepts and theories …

Strong coupling and induced transparency at room temperature with single quantum dots and gap plasmons

H Leng, B Szychowski, MC Daniel, M Pelton - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Coherent coupling between plasmons and transition dipole moments in emitters can lead to
two distinct spectral effects: vacuum Rabi splitting at strong coupling strengths, and induced …

Chaos-assisted broadband momentum transformation in optical microresonators

X Jiang, L Shao, SX Zhang, X Yi, J Wiersig, L Wang… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The law of momentum conservation rules out many desired processes in optical
microresonators. We report broadband momentum transformations of light in asymmetric …

Robust optical delay lines with topological protection

M Hafezi, EA Demler, MD Lukin, JM Taylor - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
Phenomena associated with the topological properties of physical systems can be naturally
robust against perturbations. This robustness is exemplified by quantized conductance and …