Subjects: Optics >> Quantum optics submitted time 2023-02-19
Abstract： One of the fundamental challenges in nanophotonics is to gain full control over nanoscale optical elements. The precise spatiotemporal arrangement determines their interactions and collective behavior. To this end, DNA nanotechnology is employed as an unprecedented tool to create nanophotonic devices with excellent spatial addressability and temporal programmability. However, most of the current DNA-assembled nanophotonic devices can only reconfigure among random or very few defined states. Here, we demonstrate a DNA-assembled rotary plasmonic nanoclock. In this system, a rotor gold nanorod can carry out directional and reversible 360 degree rotation with respect to a stator gold nanorod, transitioning among 16 well-defined configurations powered by DNA fuels. The full-turn rotation process is monitored by optical spectroscopy in real time. We further demonstrate autonomous rotation of the plasmonic nanoclock powered by DNAzyme-RNA interactions. Such assembly approaches pave a viable route towards advanced nanophotonic systems entirely from the bottom-up.
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Subjects: Optics >> Quantum optics submitted time 2023-02-19
Abstract： Organic circularly polarized (CP) lasers have received increasing attention due to their future photoelectric applications. Here, we demonstrate a CP laser from a pure organic crystal-filled microcavity without any chiral molecules or chiral structures. Benefited from the giant anisotropy and excellent laser gain of organic crystals, optical Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling effect can be induced and is conductive to the CP laser in such microcavities. The maximum dissymmetry factor of the CP lasing with opposite helicities reached, is as high as 1.2. Our strategy may provide a new idea for the design of CP lasers towards future 3D laser displays, information storage and other fields.
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Subjects: Optics >> Quantum optics submitted time 2023-02-19
Abstract： Topological photonic crystals, which offer topologically protected and back-scattering-immune transport channels, have recently gained significant attention for both scientific and practical reasons. Although most current studies focus on dielectric materials with weak dispersions, this study focuses on topological phases in dispersive materials and presents a numerical study of Chern insulators in gaseous-phase plasma cylinder cells. We develop a numerical framework to address the complex material dispersion arising from the plasma medium and external magnetic fields and identify Chern insulator phases that are experimentally achievable. Using this numerical tool, we also explain the flat bands commonly observed in periodic plasmonic structures, via local resonances, and how edge states change as the edge termination is periodically modified. This work opens up opportunities for exploring band topology in new materials with non-trivial dispersions and has potential RF applications, ranging from plasma-based lighting to plasma propulsion engines.
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Subjects: Optics >> Quantum optics submitted time 2023-02-19
Abstract： We show that broadband optical magnetism can be achieved through incorporating multi-scaled 3D metallic meta-elements into Z-shaped nanohole arrays. The broadband effect arises from the excitation of multiple magnetic resonances in the meta-elements at different wavelengths. Moreover, the nanohole arrays exhibit a large transmission difference for left- and right-handed circularly polarized incident light due to the chiral arrangement of the meta-elements. More importantly, we have realized experimentally the broadband behavior for the optical range in Ag nanohole arrays fabricated by using a shadowing vapor deposition method. Our study opens up new opportunities for achieving broadband artificial magnetism at visible frequencies which allows possible applications in plasmonic bio-sensors or energy concentrators.
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Subjects: Optics >> Quantum optics submitted time 2023-02-19
Abstract： We demonstrate experimentally that random phase modulation of an erbium-doped fiber ring-laser by an intra-cavity electro-optic phase modulator did not inhibit ultrashort-pulse operation. Stable and self-starting ultrashort-pulse operation with a single pulse circulating in the cavity was achieved even when the phase modulator was driven with random sequences sufficiently fast and strong to render the laser cavity modeless, in the sense that heterodyning of the laser output did not show any spectral lines corresponding to a mode spectrum. No significant change in measured pulse characteristics was observed, compared to conventional mode-locking in the unmodulated cavity. The insensitivity to the random phase modulation is expected, given the lack of phase-sensitive elements in the cavity.
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