Transparent conducting oxides: from all-dielectric plasmonics to a new paradigm in integrated photonics

W Jaffray, S Saha, VM Shalaev… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
During the past few years, the optics and photonics communities have renewed their
attention toward transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), which for over two decades have …

Near-zero-index ultra-fast pulse characterization

W Jaffray, F Belli, EG Carnemolla, C Dobas… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transparent conducting oxides exhibit giant optical nonlinearities in the near-infrared
window where their linear index approaches zero. Despite the magnitude and speed of …

Extremely large nondegenerate nonlinear index and phase shift in epsilon-near-zero materials

S Benis, N Munera, S Faryadras… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials have emerged as viable platforms for strong nonlinear
optical (NLO) interactions. The NLO phase shift in materials exhibiting an ENZ condition is …

Nonlinear Loss Engineering in Near‐Zero‐Index Bulk Materials

W Jaffray, M Clerici, B Heijnen… - Advanced Optical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) show unprecedented optical nonlinearities in the
near infrared wavelength range, where the real part of their linear refractive index …

A Space‐Time Knife‐Edge in Epsilon‐Near‐Zero Films for Ultrafast Pulse Characterization

A Ball, R Secondo, D Fomra, J Wu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Epsilon‐near‐zero (ENZ) materials have shown strong refractive nonlinearities that
can be fast in an absolute sense. While continuing to advance fundamental science, such as …

Machine-learning-assisted dual harmonic generation FROG for enhanced ultrafast pulse recovery

W Jaffray, Z Guo, A Di Falco… - … Learning: Science and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrafast pulse characterisation is crucial for studying processes that occur at femtosecond
timescales and below. Because of this, various methods have been developed to recover a …

Engineering waveguide nonlinear effective length via low index thin films

W Jaffray, F Ali, S Stengel, Z Guo… - Advanced Optical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Novel photonic nanowires are fabricated using low‐index materials and tested in the near‐
infrared spectrum to assess their nonlinear optical properties. In this work, the need to …

Generation of photon pairs through spontaneous four-wave mixing in thin nonlinear layers

C Son, S Peana, O Matthiessen, A Kryvobok… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Pairs of entangled photons are a key resource for photonic quantum technologies. The
demand for integrability and multi-functionality suggests flat platforms, such as ultrathin …

Organic metallic epsilon-near-zero materials with large ultrafast optical nonlinearity

Q Hu, X Yu, H Liu, J Qiu, W Tang, S Liang, L Li… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials have shown significant potential for nonlinear optical
applications due to their ultrafast hot carriers and consequent optical nonlinearity …

Time sampling using four-wave mixing to measure the dynamics of semiconductor nanolasers

F Monti - 2024 - theses.hal.science
PhC nanolasers are receiving more and more attention due to their unique capacity to
manipulate and confine light at a very small scale. Their small footprint and low thresholds …