Recent progress in vanadium dioxide: The multi-stimuli responsive material and its applications

S Bhupathi, S Wang, Y Ke, Y Long - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The reversible phase transition in vanadium dioxide (VO 2) with light, heat, electric,
magnetic, and mechanical stimuli is the enabling concept to function as a smart material. It is …

A review on 1D photonic crystal based reflective optical limiters

R Gadhwal, P Kaushik, A Devi - Critical Reviews in Solid State and …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
All-optical limiting devices are based on materials enabling light to control light, possessing
a nonlinear optical response, and are reviving their popularity. One-dimensional photonic …

Electrically tunable VO2–metal metasurface for mid-infrared switching, limiting and nonlinear isolation

J King, C Wan, TJ Park, S Deshpande, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
We demonstrate an electrically controlled vanadium dioxide (VO2)–metal metasurface for
the mid-wave infrared regime that simultaneously functions as a tunable optical switch, an …

2D graphene oxide: a versatile thermo‐optic material

J Hu, J Wu, W Liu, D **, HE Dirani… - Advanced Functional …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Efficient heat management and control in optical devices, facilitated by advanced thermo‐
optic materials, are critical for many applications such as photovoltaics, thermal emitters …

Ultra‐High Transmission Broadband Tunable VO2 Optical Limiter

H Guan, F Ren, S Liang, J Gu, C Geng… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
An optical limiter (OL) is a nonlinear device that protects sensitive photodetectors or human
eyes from high‐intensity illumination. However, current OLs have low open‐state …

Enhanced nonlinear optical performance of perovskite films passivated by porphyrin derivatives

Z Guan, H Li, Z Wei, N Shan, Y Fang, Y Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic defects generated from the grain boundaries and surfaces of perovskite films are
primary factors that degrade the nonlinear optical (NLO) properties, and therefore filling or …

Fundamental limits for transmission modulation in VO_2 metasurfaces

B Li, R Camacho-Morales, N Li, A Tognazzi… - Photonics …, 2023‏ - opg.optica.org
The interest in dynamic modulation of light by ultra-thin materials exhibiting insulator–metal
phase transition, such as VO_2, has rapidly grown due to the myriad industrial applications …

Opto-thermal dynamics of thin-film optical limiters based on the VO2 phase transition

A Tognazzi, M Gandolfi, B Li, G Ambrosio… - Optical Materials …, 2022‏ - opg.optica.org
Protection of human eyes or sensitive detectors from high-intensity laser radiation is an
important challenge in modern light technologies. Metasurfaces have proved to be valuable …

Switchable induced-transmission filters enabled by vanadium dioxide

C Wan, D Woolf, CM Hessel, J Salman, Y **ao… - Nano Letters, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
An induced-transmission filter (ITF) uses an ultrathin metallic layer positioned at an electric-
field node within a dielectric thin-film bandpass filter to select one transmission band while …

[HTML][HTML] Low-threshold power and tunable integrated optical limiter based on an ultracompact VO2/Si waveguide

J Parra, J Navarro-Arenas, M Menghini, M Recaman… - Apl Photonics, 2021‏ - pubs.aip.org
Optical limiters are nonlinear devices that encompass applications from device protection to
activation functionalities in neural networks. In this work, we report an optical limiter on …