Ultrafast Metaphotonics

T Li, H Xu, M Panmai, T Shao, G Gao, F Xu, G Hu… - Ultrafast …, 2024 - spj.science.org
The exploration of optical and photonic phenomena, particularly the modulation of pulse
signals and the ultrafast control of light fields at extreme temporal and spatial scales …

Second harmonic generation at a time-varying interface

R Tirole, S Vezzoli, D Saxena, S Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Time-varying metamaterials rely on large and fast changes of the linear permittivity. Beyond
the linear terms, however, the effect of a non-perturbative modulation of the medium on …

Edge detection imaging by quasi-bound states in the continuum

T Liu, J Qiu, L Xu, M Qin, L Wan, T Yu, Q Liu… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Optical metasurfaces have revolutionized analog computing and image processing at
subwavelength scales with faster speed and lower power consumption. They typically …

Recent advances in the multi-field manipulations on the metal-insulator transition for correlated vanadium oxides enabling interdisciplinary applications

X Zhou - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
The metal-insulator transition (MIT) within vanadium oxides results in the abrupt variations in
correlated physical functionalities, emerging as a new paradigm to enrich multidisciplinary …

Efficient Thermo-Optic Switching and Modulating in Nonlocal Metasurfaces

H Jiang, E Maqbool, Y Cai, Z Han - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
High-Q optical resonances in nonlocal metasurfaces, benefiting from significantly enhanced
light/matter interactions, feature strong responses even under a weak external stimulus. In …

New Avenues for Phase Imaging: Optical Metasurfaces

N Priscilla, SB Sulejman, A Roberts… - ACS Photonics, 2024 - ACS Publications
Visualizing the phase of an optical field is fundamental to applications ranging from
biological microscopy through to material science. Its importance is evidenced by the award …

Temporal signal processing with nonlocal optical metasurfaces

M Cotrufo, S Esfahani, D Korobkin, A Alù - npj Nanophotonics, 2024 - nature.com
Nonlocal metasurfaces have recently enabled an ultra-compact, low-power and high-speed
platform to perform analog image processing. While several computational tasks have been …

High-NA 2D Image Edge Detection Using Tamm Plasmon Polaritons in Few-Layer Stratified Media

BS Dias, J van de Groep - ACS Photonics, 2024 - ACS Publications
Analog optical computing with nanophotonic devices has emerged as a promising solution
to the need for ultrafast computation with low power consumption. Several key mathematical …

Subpicosecond Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of the Photoinduced Phase Transition in VO2 Thin Films

Y Gutiérrez, S Vázquez-Miranda, S Espinoza… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We report the first application of broadband time-resolved pump–probe ellipsometry to study
the ultrafast dynamics of the photoinduced insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) in vanadium …

Dynamic Wavelength‐Selective Diffraction and Absorption with Direct‐Patterned Hydrogel Metagrating

C Dai, X Li, W Yang, Y Chen, D Zheng… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogel nanophotonic devices exhibit attractive tunable capabilities in structural coloration
and optical display. However, current hydrogel‐based tunable strategies are mostly based …