Coherent perfect absorbers: linear control of light with light

DG Baranov, A Krasnok, T Shegai, A Alù… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The absorption of electromagnetic energy by a material is a phenomenon that underlies
many applications, including molecular sensing, photocurrent generation and …

Quantum plasmonics: new opportunity in fundamental and applied photonics

D Xu, X Xiong, L Wu, XF Ren, CE Png… - Advances in Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Surface plasmons allow electromagnetic fields to be confined to subwavelength scale, well
beyond the classical optical diffraction limit. With continuous reduction of optical mode …

Two-photon interference: the Hong–Ou–Mandel effect

F Bouchard, A Sit, Y Zhang, R Fickler… - Reports on Progress …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Nearly 30 years ago, two-photon interference was observed, marking the beginning of a
new quantum era. Indeed, two-photon interference has no classical analogue, giving it a …

Quantum metasurface for multiphoton interference and state reconstruction

K Wang, JG Titchener, SS Kruk, L Xu, HP Chung… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Metasurfaces based on resonant nanophotonic structures have enabled innovative types of
flat-optics devices that often outperform the capabilities of bulk components, yet these …

Topologically protected valley-dependent quantum photonic circuits

Y Chen, XT He, YJ Cheng, HY Qiu, LT Feng… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Topological photonics has been introduced as a powerful platform for integrated optics,
since it can deal with robust light transport, and be further extended to the quantum world …

Room-temperature on-chip orbital angular momentum single-photon sources

C Wu, S Kumar, Y Kan, D Komisar, Z Wang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
On-chip photon sources carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) are in demand for high-
capacity optical information processing in both classical and quantum regimes. However …

Observation of PT-symmetric quantum interference

F Klauck, L Teuber, M Ornigotti, M Heinrich, S Scheel… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A common wisdom in quantum mechanics is that the Hamiltonian has to be Hermitian in
order to ensure a real eigenvalue spectrum. Yet, parity–time (PT)-symmetric Hamiltonians …

8× 8 reconfigurable quantum photonic processor based on silicon nitride waveguides

C Taballione, TAW Wolterink, J Lugani, A Eckstein… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The development of large-scale optical quantum information processing circuits ground on
the stability and reconfigurability enabled by integrated photonics. We demonstrate a …

A non-unitary metasurface enables continuous control of quantum photon–photon interactions from bosonic to fermionic

Q Li, W Bao, Z Nie, Y Xia, Y Xue, Y Wang, S Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Photonic quantum information processing, one of the leading platforms for quantum
technologies,,,–, critically relies on optical quantum interference to produce an …

Nonclassical near-field dynamics of surface plasmons

M Hong, RB Dawkins, B Bertoni, C You… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The coupling of photons to collective charge oscillations at the surface of a metal to form
surface-plasmon polaritons enables strong confinement of electromagnetic near fields in the …