分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
摘要： Negative reflection and negative refraction are exotic phenomena that can be achieved by platforms such as double-negative metamaterial, hyperbolic metamaterial, and phase-discontinuity metasurface. Recently, natural biaxial van der Waals (vdW) materials, which support extremely anisotropic, low-loss, and highly confined polaritons from infrared to visible regime, are emerging as promising candidates for planar reflective and refractive optics. Here, we introduce three degrees of freedom, namely interface, crystal direction, and electric tunability to manipulate the reflection and refraction of the polaritons. With broken in-plane symmetry contributed by the interface and crystal direction, distinguished reflection and refraction such as negative and backward reflection, positive and negative refraction could exist simultaneously and exhibit high tunability. The numerical simulations show good consistency with the theoretical analysis. Our findings provide a robust recipe for the realization of negative reflection and refraction in biaxial vdW materials, paving the way for the polaritonics and interface nano-optics.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
摘要： Spectral/angular emissivity $e$ and absorptivity ${\alpha}$ of an object are widely believed to be identical by Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation in reciprocal systems, but this introduces an intrinsic and inevitable energy loss for energy conversion and harvesting devices. So far, experimental evidences of breaking this well-known balance are still absent, and previous theoretical proposals are restricted to narrow single-band nonreciprocal radiation. Here we observe for the first time, to our knowledge, the violation of Kirchhoff's law using ultrathin ($0.6$ has been experimentally demonstrated under a moderate external magnetic field. Moreover, based on magnetized ENZ building blocks supporting asymmetrically radiative Berreman and surface ENZ modes, we show versatile shaping of nonreciprocal thermal radiation: single-band, dual-band, and broadband nonreciprocal emission spectra at different wavebands. Our findings of breaking Kirchhoff's law will advance the conventional understanding of emission and absorption processes of natural objects, and lay a solid foundation for more comprehensive studies in designing various nonreciprocal thermal emitters. The reported recipe of diversely shaping nonreciprocal emission will also breed new possibilities in renovating next-generation nonreciprocal energy devices in the areas of solar cells, thermophotovoltaic, radiative cooling, etc.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Qi Jia
Yanxia Zhang
Bojian Shi
Hang Li
Xiaoxin Li
Rui Feng
Fangkui Sun
Yongyin Cao
Jian Wang
Cheng-Wei Qiu
Weiqiang Ding
摘要： Polarization (P), angular index (l), and radius index (p) are three independent degrees of freedom (DoFs) of vector vortex beams, which have been widely used in optical communications, quantum optics, information processing, etc. Although the sorting of one DoF can be achieved efficiently, it is still a great challenge to sort all these DoFs simultaneously in a compact and efficient way. Here, we propose a beam sorter to deal with all these three DoFs simultaneously by using a diffractive deep neural network (D$^2$NN) and experimentally demonstrated the robust sorting of 120 Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes using a compact D$^2$NN formed by one spatial light modulator and one mirror only. The proposed beam sorter demonstrates the great potential of D$^2$NN in optical field manipulation and will benefit the diverse applications of vector vortex beams.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
摘要： Metasurfaces, artificial 2D structures, have been widely used for the design of various functionalities in optics. Jones matrix, a 2*2 matrix with eight parameters, provides the most complete characterization of the metasurface structures in linear optics, and the number of free parameters (i.e., degrees of freedom, DOFs) in the Jones matrix determines the limit to what functionalities we can realize. Great efforts have been made to continuously expand the number of DOFs, and a maximal number of six has been achieved recently. However, the realization of 'holy grail' goal with eight DOFs (full free parameters) has been proven as a great challenge so far. Here, we show that by cascading two layer metasurfaces and utilizing the gradient descent optimization algorithm, a spatially varying Jones matrix with eight DOFs is constructed and verified numerically and experimentally in optical frequencies. Such ultimate control unlocks new opportunities to design optical functionalities that are unattainable with previously known methodologies and may find wide potential applications in optical fields.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Yuan Zhou
Xiaohao Xu
Yanan Zhang
Manman Li
Shaohui Yan
Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas
Baojun Li
Cheng-Wei Qiu
Baoli Yao
摘要： The imaginary Poynting momentum (IPM) of light has been captivated an unusual origin of optomechanical effects on dipolar magnetoelectric particles, but yet observed in experiments. Here, we report, for the very first time, a whole family of high-order IPM forces for not only magnetoelectric but also generic Mie particles, assisted with their excited higher multipoles within. Such optomechanical phenomena derive from a nonlinear contribution of the IPM to the optical force, and can be remarkable even when the incident IPM is small. We observe the high-order optomechanics in a structured light beam with vortex-like IPM streamlines, which allows the low-order dipolar contribution to be suppressed. Our results provide the first unambiguous evidence of the ponderomotive nature of the IPM, expand the classification of optical forces and open new possibilities for optical forces and micromanipulations.
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