Structural color generation: from layered thin films to optical metasurfaces

D Wang, Z Liu, H Wang, M Li, LJ Guo, C Zhang - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
Recent years have witnessed a rapid development in the field of structural coloration, colors
generated from the interaction of nanostructures with light. Compared to conventional color …

Nonlinear optical effects in epsilon-near-zero media

O Reshef, I De Leon, MZ Alam, RW Boyd - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Efficient nonlinear optical interactions are essential for many applications in modern
photonics. However, they typically require intense laser sources and long interaction …

All-optical ultrafast polarization switching with nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces

H Wang, Z Hu, J Deng, X Zhang, J Chen, K Li, G Li - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Optical switching has important applications in optical information processing, optical
computing, and optical communications. The long-term pursuit of optical switch is to achieve …

Magnetic‐driven broadband epsilon‐near‐zero materials at radio frequency

K Sun, C Wang, J Tian, Z Zhang, N Zeng… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Epsilon‐near‐zero (ENZ) materials, exhibiting unique physical characteristics such
as near‐zero refraction, have aroused extensive interest and exhibit great potentials in novel …

Ultrafast and energy-efficient all-optical switching with graphene-loaded deep-subwavelength plasmonic waveguides

M Ono, M Hata, M Tsunekawa, K Nozaki… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
All-optical switches have attracted attention because they can potentially overcome the
speed limitation of electric switches. However, ultrafast, energy-efficient all-optical switches …

Broadband frequency translation through time refraction in an epsilon-near-zero material

Y Zhou, MZ Alam, M Karimi, J Upham, O Reshef… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Space-time duality in paraxial optical wave propagation implies the existence of
intriguing effects when light interacts with a material exhibiting two refractive indexes …

Electro-optically tunable multifunctional metasurfaces

GK Shirmanesh, R Sokhoyan, PC Wu, HA Atwater - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Sha** the flow of light at the nanoscale has been a grand challenge for nanophotonics
over decades. It is now widely recognized that metasurfaces represent a chip-scale …

All‐dielectric active terahertz photonics driven by bound states in the continuum

S Han, L Cong, YK Srivastava, B Qiang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The remarkable emergence of all‐dielectric meta‐photonics governed by the physics of high‐
index dielectric materials offers a low‐loss platform for efficient manipulation and …

Near-zero-index materials for photonics

N Kinsey, C DeVault, A Boltasseva… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery, design and development of materials are critically linked to advances in
many areas of research, and optics is no exception. Recently, the spectral region in which …

Ultrafast optical switching and data encoding on synthesized light fields

D Hui, H Alqattan, S Zhang, V Pervak, E Chowdhury… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Modern electronics are founded on switching the electrical signal by radio frequency
electromagnetic fields on the nanosecond time scale, limiting the information processing to …