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Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Matthias Carsten Putzke, Chunyu Guo, Maja Deborah Bachmann

The quest to improve transparent conductors balances two key goals: increasing electrical conductivity and increasing optical transparency. To improve both simultaneously is hindered by the physical limitation that good metals with high electrical conducti ...

Nature Portfolio2023

General invariance and equilibrium conditions for lattice dynamics in 1D, 2D, and 3D materials

Nicola Marzari, Changpeng Lin, Samuel Poncé

The long-wavelength behavior of vibrational modes plays a central role in carrier transport, phonon-assisted optical properties, superconductivity, and thermomechanical and thermoelectric properties of materials. Here, we present general invariance and equ ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Observational signatures of galactic turbulent dynamos

Jennifer Waltraud Schober, Abhijit Bhausaheb Bendre

We analyse the observational signatures of galactic magnetic fields that are self-consistently generated in magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the interstellar medium through turbulence driven by supernova (SN) explosions and differential rotation. In part ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Extreme polarization-dependent supercontinuum generation in an uncladded silicon nitride waveguide

Camille Sophie Brès, Eirini Tagkoudi, Caroline Gaëlle Amiot

We experimentally demonstrate the generation of a short-wave infrared supercontinuum in an uncladded silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguide with extreme polarization sensitivity at the pumping wavelength of 2.1 µm. The air-clad waveguide is specifically designe ...

2021

Transparent composite nano-fibre based multi-layer textile

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Thierry Pelet

A composite multi-layer textile (1), comprising at least one nanofibre layer (11) with nanofibres with diameters below 100nm and one support layer (12) with microfibres with diameters below three microns, wherein the layers (11, 12) were produced by electr ...

2021

Teaching optics to a machine learning network

Olivier Martin, André-Pierre Blanchard-Dionne

In this Letter, we demonstrate how harmonic oscillator equations can be integrated in a neural network to improve the spectral response prediction for an optical system. We use the optical properties of a one-dimensional nanoslit array for a practical impl ...

2020

Spatial wave control using a self-biased nonlinear metasurface at microwave frequencies

Ali Momeni

Recently, investigation of metasurfaces has been extended to wave control through exploiting nonlinearity. Among all of the ways to achieve tunable metasurfaces with multiplexed performances, nonlinearity is one of the promising choices. Although several p ...

2020

Terahertz Quarter Wave-Plate Metasurface Polarizer Based on Arrays of Graphene Ribbons

Babak Rahmani

We propose a novel graphene-dielectric-based meta-surface for manipulating the polarization of the incident light in the terahertz regime. The proposed structure comprised two orthogonally oriented periodic array of graphene ribbons (PAGRs) which are separ ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Distributed hydrostatic pressure measurement using phase OTDR in a highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Li Zhang

Although distributed fiber-optic sensing of axial strain and temperature is a well-established technique, there are almost no demonstrations of distributed hydrostatic pressure sensing. The main obstacle for such measurements is the low sensitivity to pres ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Comparative analysis of transmittance measurement geometries and apparatus

Sabine Süsstrunk, Marjan Shahpaski

The accurate measurement of reflectance and transmittance properties of materials is essential in the printing and display industries in order to ensure precise color reproduction. In comparison with reflectance measurement, where the impact of different g ...

2019

Polaritonic Cross Feshbach Resonance

Daniel Oberli, Marcia Portella Oberli, Mitchell David Anderson, Naotomo Takemura, Morteza Navadeh Toupchi

We demonstrate the existence of a cross Feshbach resonance by strongly driving a lower polariton mode and by monitoring in time the transmission of a short optical pulse at the energy of the upper polariton mode in a semiconductor microcavity. From the sig ...

2019

Tunable polarization converter based on one-dimensional graphene metasurfaces

Babak Rahmani

We introduce a new metasurface structure for controlling the polarization of light by leveraging a well-harmonized combination of graphene and dielectric. The proposed metasurface is composed of an array of rectangular pillars laterally sandwiched by ribbo ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2018

Multiband variability studies and novel broadband SED modeling of Mrk 501 in 2009

Thomas Günther Bretz

Aims. We present an extensive study of the BL Lac object Mrk 501 based on a data set collected during the multi-instrument campaign spanning from 2009 March 15 to 2009 August 1, which includes, among other instruments, MAGIC, VERITAS, Whipple 10 m, and Fer ...

Edp Sciences S A2017

Method, apparatus and program for processing a circular light field

Martin Vetterli, Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz, Zhou Xue

Method for processing a circular light field comprising the step of receiving or storing a circular light field matrix, wherein the circular light field matrix comprises pixel data for different circumferential angles and for different incidence angles, wh ...

2017

Linearly polarized GHz magnetization dynamics of spin helix modes in the ferrimagnetic insulator Cu_2OSeO_3

Dirk Grundler, Helmuth Berger

Linear dichroism — the polarization dependent absorption of electromagnetic waves— is routinely exploited in applications as diverse as structure determination of DNA or polarization filters in optical technologies. Here filamentary absorbers with a large ...

Nature Research2017

Discrimination of temperature and strain by combined refractive index and birefringence measurements using coherent Rayleigh sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Xin Lu

Temperature and strain discrimination is experimentally demonstrated in an elliptical-core polarization-maintaining fiber by making use of Rayleigh-based distributed birefringence measurements and the frequency shift of the correlation peak obtained by sta ...

SPIE2017

Coherent Rayleigh time domain reflectometry : novel applications for optical fibre sensing

Xin Lu

Owing to the advantages of the optical fibre, such as lightweight, small size, low cost and immunity to electromagnetic interferences, the fibre sensors have been applied in diverse fields and the scientific research on fibre sensing keeps improving to mee ...

EPFL2016

Femtosecond laser direct-write waveplates based on stress-induced birefringence

Yves Bellouard, Christos Edouardos Athanasiou

The use of femtosecond lasers to introduce controlled stress states has recently been demonstrated in silica glass. We use this technique, in combination with chemical etching, to generate and control stress-induced birefringence over a well-defined region ...

Optical Soc Amer2016

Near optimal graphene terahertz non-reciprocal isolator

Juan Ramon Mosig, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Michele Tamagnone

Isolators, or optical diodes, are devices enabling unidirectional light propagation by using non-reciprocal optical materials, namely materials able to break Lorentz reciprocity. The realization of isolators at terahertz frequencies is a very important ope ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Direct Comparison of Second Harmonic Generation and Two-Photon Photoluminescence from Single Connected Gold Nanodimers

Olivier Martin, Jérémy Butet

In this article we compare the two-photon photoluminescence and second harmonic generation from single connected gold nanodimers. Analyzing the particle size-dependent nonlinear optical spectra and performing excitation polarization resolved measurements u ...

American Chemical Society2016