Flat optics with dispersion-engineered metasurfaces

WT Chen, AY Zhu, F Capasso - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Control over the dispersion of the refractive index is essential to the performance of most
modern optical systems. These range from laboratory microscopes to optical fibres and even …

Quantum optical microcombs

M Kues, C Reimer, JM Lukens, WJ Munro… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A key challenge for quantum science and technology is to realize large-scale, precisely
controllable, practical systems for non-classical secured communications, metrology and …

Towards higher-dimensional structured light

C He, Y Shen, A Forbes - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer

R Wang, MA Ansari, H Ahmed, Y Li, W Cai… - light: science & …, 2023 - nature.com
A lightweight and portable spectrometer is desirable for miniaturization and integration. The
unprecedented capability of optical metasurfaces has shown much promise to perform such …

Advances in high-dimensional quantum entanglement

M Erhard, M Krenn, A Zeilinger - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Since its discovery, quantum entanglement has challenged some of the best established
views of the world: locality and reality. Quantum technologies promise to revolutionize …

Engineering photonic angular momentum with structured light: a review

J Chen, C Wan, Q Zhan - Advanced Photonics, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structured light with inhomogeneous phase, amplitude, and polarization spatial distributions
that represent an infinite-dimensional space of eigenstates for light as the ideal carrier can …

Generation of spatiotemporal optical vortices with controllable transverse orbital angular momentum

A Chong, C Wan, J Chen, Q Zhan - Nature Photonics, 2020 - nature.com
Today, it is well known that light possesses a linear momentum that is along the propagation
direction. Besides, scientists also discovered that light can possess an angular momentum …

Active optical metasurfaces: comprehensive review on physics, mechanisms, and prospective applications

J Yang, S Gurung, S Bej, P Ni… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness hold considerable promise for future
advances in fundamental optics and novel optical applications due to their unprecedented …

Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

A Pasquazi, M Peccianti, L Razzari, DJ Moss, S Coen… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
The quest towards the integration of ultra-fast, high-precision optical clocks is reflected in the
large number of high-impact papers on the topic published in the last few years. This interest …

Towards properties on demand in quantum materials

DN Basov, RD Averitt, D Hsieh - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed an explosion in the field of quantum materials, headlined by
the predictions and discoveries of novel Landau-symmetry-broken phases in correlated …