Epsilon-near-zero photonics: infinite potentials

J Wu, ZT **e, Y Sha, HY Fu, Q Li - Photonics Research, 2021 - opg.optica.org
With its unique and exclusive linear and nonlinear optical characteristics, epsilon-near-zero
(ENZ) photonics has drawn a tremendous amount of attention in the recent decade in the …

Photonic Spin‐Hall effect at generic interfaces

X Ling, Z Zhang, Z Dai, Z Wang, H Luo… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although the photonic spin‐Hall effect (PSHE) at optical interfaces has been widely studied
in past years, its physical origin remains obscure. Here, through studying the scatterings of …

Topology‐induced phase transitions in spin‐orbit photonics

X Ling, F Guan, X Cai, S Ma, HX Xu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Spin‐controlled vortex generation and spin‐Hall effect, two distinct effects discovered in
optics, have been extensively studied recently. However, while physical origins of two effects …

Beam shifts in two-dimensional atomic crystals

X Ling, Z Zhang, S Chen, X Zhou… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical beam shifts, which mainly refer to the Goos–Hänchen shift and spin-Hall shift, widely
exist in basic optical processes such as interface reflection and refraction. They are very …

Experimental realization of an epsilon-near-zero graded-index metalens at terahertz frequencies

V Pacheco-Peña, N Engheta, S Kuznetsov… - Physical Review …, 2017 - APS
The terahertz band has been historically hindered by the lack of efficient generators and
detectors, but a series of recent breakthroughs have helped to effectively close the “terahertz …

Vortex generation in the spin-orbit interaction of a light beam propagating inside a uniaxial medium: origin and efficiency

X Ling, H Luo, F Guan, X Zhou, H Luo, L Zhou - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
It has been known that an optical vortex with a topological charge±2 can be generated as a
circularly polarized (CP) light beam propagates in a bulk uniaxial crystal, but its physical …

Enhanced optical spatial differential operations via strong spin-orbit interactions in an anisotropic epsilon-near-zero slab

W Xu, X Ling, D Xu, S Chen, S Wen, H Luo - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Several works on optical higher-order differential operations have recently attracted
attention, particularly in image processing for edge detection. However, the inefficient …

Topological differential microscopy based on the spin–orbit interaction of light in a natural crystal

B Song, SC Wen, W Shu - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
We experimentally demonstrate a two-dimensional topological differential microscopy based
on the spin–orbit interaction of light through a thin uniaxial crystal slab. First, a three …

Topological band gaps enlarged in epsilon-near-zero magneto-optical photonic crystals

T Liu, N Kobayashi, K Ikeda, Y Ota, S Iwamoto - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Topological photonics provides exciting and emerging opportunities for the manipulation of
light. As the photonic analogue of quantum Hall edge states, chiral edge modes, arising at …

Enhanced beam shifts mediated by bound states in continuum

SS Biswas, G Remesh, VG Achanta, A Banerjee… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The interaction of light beams with resonant structures has led to the development of various
optical platforms for sensing, particle manipulation, and strong light–matter interaction. In the …