Publications associées à Coherent oscillations between orbital angular momentum polariton states in an elliptic resonator

Wave-momentum shaping for moving objects in heterogeneous and dynamic media

Stefan Rotter, Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Bakhtiyar Orazbayev, Matthieu Francis Malléjac

Light and sound waves can move objects through the transfer of linear or angular momentum, which has led to the development of optical and acoustic tweezers, with applications ranging from biomedical engineering to quantum optics. Although impressive manip ...

2024

Design of a Flexure-Based Flywheel for the Storage of Angular Momentum and Kinetic Energy

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Patrick Robert Flückiger, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

The flywheel is a widespread mechanical component used for the storage of kinetic energy and angular momentum. It typically consists of cylindrical inertia rotating about its axis on rolling bearings, which involves undesired friction, lubrication, and wea ...

2024

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Molecules: Effects of Electron Propagation into Vacuum

Klaus Kern, Abhishek Grewal

Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we experimentally and theoretically investigate isolated platinum phthalocyanine (PtPc) molecules adsorbed on an atomically thin NaCl(100) film vapor deposited on Au(111). We obtain good agreement between theory a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Femtosecond-laser direct-write photoconductive patterns on tellurite glass

Yves Bellouard, Gözden Torun, Anastasia Romashkina

We report the formation of arbitrary photoconductive patterns made of tellurium (Te) nanocrystals by exposing a tellurite (TeO2-based) glass to femtosecond laser pulses. During this process, Te/TeO2-glass nanocomposite interfaces with photoconductive prope ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Photoinduced Second-Order Nonlinearities in Centrosymmetric Media

Ozan Yakar

The interaction of light and matter enables nonlinear frequency conversion and the creation of coherent currents. The optical control of electric currents is of fundamental relevance and prominent research focus in the last decades. These photocurrents ena ...

EPFL2024

Single-shot Kramers-Kronig complex orbital angular momentum spectrum retrieval

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Yujie Chen

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum diagnosis is a fundamental building block for diverse OAM-based systems. Among others, the simple on-axis interferometric measurement can retrieve the amplitude and phase information of complex OAM spectra in a few s ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2023

Multipolar Pseudochirality-Induced Optical Torque

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri, Mintae Chung, Andrei Kiselev

It has been observed that achiral nanoparticles, such as flat helices, may be subjected to an optical torque even when illuminated by normally incident linearly polarized light. However, the origin of this fascinating phenomenon has so far remained mostly ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

Majed Chergui

Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense, coherent and tunable. They are enabling a broad range of nonlinear optical and s ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Valence Orbitals Driving the Spin Dynamics in a Rare-Earth Single-Atom Magnet

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Dante Philippe Sblendorio, Alberto Curcella

We combine spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy with quantum master equation analysis to investigate the spin dynamics of the single atom magnet Dy on graphene/Ir(111). By performing reading and writing experiments, we show that the strongly spin p ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Topological MIMO Optical Signal Processing

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Farzad Zangeneh Nejad

An important advantage of optical signal processing is the possibility of performing various operations in parallel. Among the techniques proposed for parallel optical signal processing, frequency division multiplexing (FDM) is a well-known approach, in wh ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

A squeezed mechanical oscillator with millisecond quantum decoherence

Tobias Kippenberg, Amir Youssefi, Mahdi Chegnizadeh, Shingo Kono

An enduring challenge in constructing mechanical-oscillator-based hybrid quantum systems is to ensure engineered coupling to an auxiliary degree of freedom and maintain good mechanical isolation from the environment, that is, low quantum decoherence, consi ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Experimental demonstration of dynamic spatiotemporal structured beams that simultaneously exhibit two orbital angular momenta by combining multiple frequency lines, each carrying multiple Laguerre-Gaussian modes

Tobias Kippenberg, Hao Song, Maxim Karpov, Zhe Zhao, Xinzhou Su

In general, there are different, relatively independent forms of orbital angular momenta at a given propagation distance, which might exhibit different dynamic spatial characteristics. One type involves a beam with a helical phase-front that rotates around ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Generation of OAM-carrying space-time wave packets with time-dependent beam radii using a coherent combination of multiple LG modes on multiple frequencies

Tobias Kippenberg, Hao Song, Maxim Karpov, Zhe Zhao, Xinzhou Su

Space-time (ST) wave packets, in which spatial and temporal characteristics are coupled, have gained attention due to their unique propagation characteristics, such as propagation invariance and tunable group velocity in addition to their potential ability ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Hard X-ray helical dichroism of disordered molecular media

Majed Chergui, Jérôme Lacour, Christian David, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Malte Oppermann, Dominik Kinschel, Oliviero Cannelli, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira

Chirality is a structural property of molecules lacking mirror symmetry that has strong implications in diverse fields, ranging from life sciences to materials science. Chirality-sensitive spectroscopic methods, such as circular dichroism, exhibit weak sig ...

Nature Publishing Group2022

Active Ferromagnetic Metasurface with Topologically Protected Spin Texture for Spectral Filters

Haiming Yu, Dirk Grundler, Jilei Chen

Electromagnetic metasurfaces modulate a material's response to electromagnetic waves by specifically arranged elements with dimensions below the wavelength. They have opened new fields of research, including flat optics and nanophotonics on a chip. Ferroma ...

2022

Quantum Circuits for the Preparation of Spin Eigenfunctions on Quantum Computers

Alessandro Carbone

The application of quantum algorithms to the study of many-particle quantum systems requires the ability to prepare wave functions that are relevant in the behavior of the system under study. Hamiltonian symmetries are important instruments used to classif ...

MDPI2022

Development of a novel two-phase flow solver for nuclear reactor analysis: algorithms, verification and implementation in OpenFOAM

Andreas Pautz, Stefan Radman, Carlo Fiorina

A porous medium-based representation of nuclear reactors and complex engineering systems more in general can significantly reduce simulation and modelling costs, while preserving a reasonable degree of accuracy via regime map-based correlations for modelli ...

2021

Versatile shaping of optical frequency combs and applications

Jianqi Hu

Optical frequency combs are a series of phase-locked and equidistant laser lines in the spectral domain. In the time domain, they correspond to periodic pulse trains by the Fourier relation. The ability to shape optical combs and pulse trains is pivotal to ...

EPFL2021

Evidence of a coupled electron-phonon liquid in NbGe2

Mathieu François Padlewski, Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Matthias Carsten Putzke, Hao Yang

Whereas electron-phonon scattering relaxes the electron's momentum in metals, a perpetual exchange of momentum between phonons and electrons may conserve total momentum and lead to a coupled electron-phonon liquid. Such a phase of matter could be a platfor ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Metasurfaces for label-free biosensing mid-infrared optics and active photonic devices

Aleksandrs Leitis

Novel two-dimensional metamaterials, known as metasurfaces, have emerged as a breakthrough platform for controlling electromagnetic wave properties at the nanoscale. These metasurfaces consist of subwavelength nanoantennas or so-called meta-atoms, which ca ...

EPFL2021