A review of silicon subwavelength gratings: building break-through devices with anisotropic metamaterials

JM Luque-González, A Sánchez-Postigo… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical
communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which …

Roadmap on Label‐Free Super‐Resolution Imaging

VN Astratov, YB Sahel, YC Eldar… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Label‐free super‐resolution (LFSR) imaging relies on light‐scattering processes in
nanoscale objects without a need for fluorescent (FL) staining required in super‐resolved FL …

Triboelectric mechanical sensors—Progress and prospects

Q Gao, T Cheng, ZL Wang - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of sensing technologies has increased the intelligence level of equipment.
It is difficult for traditional sensing technologies to meet many current application …

Advances in colloidal building blocks: toward patchy colloidal clusters

YJ Kim, JB Moon, H Hwang, YS Kim… - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The scalable synthetic route to colloidal atoms has significantly advanced over the past two
decades. Recently, colloidal clusters with DNA‐coated cores called “patchy colloidal …

High-efficiency reflector-less dual-level silicon photonic grating coupler

V Vitali, T Domínguez Bucio, C Lacava… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We present the design and experimentally demonstrate a dual-level grating coupler with
subdecibel efficiency for a 220 nm thick silicon photonics waveguide which was fabricated …

High-precision two-dimensional displacement metrology based on matrix metasurface

H Zang, Z Zhang, Z Huang, Y Lu, P Wang - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
A long-range, high-precision, and compact transverse displacement metrology is of crucial
importance in both industries and scientific researches. However, it is a great challenge to …

Optical fingerprint of flat substrate surface and marker-free lateral displacement detection with angstrom-level precision

S Lin, Y He, D Feng, M Piliarik, XW Chen - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We report that flat substrates such as glass coverslips with surface roughness well below 0.5
nm feature notable speckle patterns when observed with high-sensitivity interference …

Ultra-sensitive measurement of transverse displacements with linear photonic gears

R Barboza, A Babazadeh, L Marrucci… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Accurately measuring mechanical displacements is essential for a vast portion of current
technologies. Several optical techniques accomplish this task, allowing for non-contact …

High sensitivity and full-circle optical rotary sensor for non-cooperatively tracing wrist tremor with nanoradian resolution

X Xu, Z Dai, Y Wang, M Li, Y Tan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a novel optical rotary sensor based on laser self-mixing interferometry is
developed for the full-circle rotation measurement. The proposed sensor is convenient to …

Integrated Janus dipole source for selective coupling to silicon waveguide networks

MF Picardi, C McPolin, JJ Kingsley-Smith… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The efficient selective and directional coupling of light to waveguiding circuitry at the
nanoscale is one of the key challenges in nanophotonics, as it constitutes a prerequisite for …