Special relativity and diffracting beams
Say there is a beam of light at 1 um (f=300 THz), and there is a particle traveling at constant speed along the axis of the beam, which is, say, a few mm or...
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Could “Supralight” effectively allow perfect cloaking?
I came across this article from 2011 https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/8/083007 In the introduction-it talks about the difficulties of...
[2605.31428] Toroidal pulse enhanced XUV generation
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.31428: Toroidal pulse enhanced XUV generation
[2605.31216] Universal free-space photonic circuits for polarized structured light
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.31216: Universal free-space photonic circuits for polarized structured light
[2505.03416] Observation of resonant doublet and variable finesse in a tabletop meter-scale linear three-mirror cavity
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2505.03416: Observation of resonant doublet and variable finesse in a tabletop meter-scale linear three-mirror cavity
[2507.19583] Photorefractive tuning seeded by third-harmonic light in a diamond photonic crystal cavity
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2507.19583: Photorefractive tuning seeded by third-harmonic light in a diamond photonic crystal cavity
[2605.31154] Orbital Angular Momentum Locking via Bound States in the Continuum
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.31154: Orbital Angular Momentum Locking via Bound States in the Continuum
[2605.30498] Metasurfaces for neutral-atom trapping
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.30498: Metasurfaces for neutral-atom trapping
[2605.30820] Binary Amplitude Modulation Suppresses Noise Up-Conversion in Coherent Diffractive Optical Networks
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.30820: Binary Amplitude Modulation Suppresses Noise Up-Conversion in Coherent Diffractive Optical Networks
[2605.31074] Preventing the Breakdown of Tight-Binding Waveguide Optics by Löwdin Orthogonalization
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.31074: Preventing the Breakdown of Tight-Binding Waveguide Optics by Löwdin Orthogonalization
[2605.30933] Transformation of a three-tone phase modulated CW laser field into sequence of short pulses
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.30933: Transformation of a three-tone phase modulated CW laser field into sequence of short pulses
A rainbow is not actually located in any specific place in the sky — every person watching the same rainbow is seeing a slightly different one, formed by different raindrops, and if two people stood n
A rainbow looks like an object in the sky. It appears to have a definite location: starting somewhere over the trees, arcing across the field, ending somewhere ...
High capacity robust information transmission using generalized random structured beams and deep learning decoding
Free space optical communication is increasingly important for meeting rising data demands, yet achieving high capacity, stability, and security simultaneously ...
[2605.29545] Ultrahigh-Q All-Metallic Metasurfaces with Robust Near-Perfect Absorption
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.29545: Ultrahigh-Q All-Metallic Metasurfaces with Robust Near-Perfect Absorption
[2605.29369] Source-driven torsional optical activity in geometrically chiral media
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.29369: Source-driven torsional optical activity in geometrically chiral media
[2605.30296] Enhanced Loading of a Molecular Magneto-Optical Trap
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.30296: Enhanced Loading of a Molecular Magneto-Optical Trap
[2605.30210] On-Chip Chiroptical Sensor based on Directional Deflection of Light: A Stern-Gerlach Integrated Optical Analog
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.30210: On-Chip Chiroptical Sensor based on Directional Deflection of Light: A Stern-Gerlach Integrated Optical Analog
[2605.29015] Collective Radiative Enhancement of Rare-Earth Ions in Lithium Niobate via Engineered LargeArea Nanohole Arrays
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.29015: Collective Radiative Enhancement of Rare-Earth Ions in Lithium Niobate via Engineered LargeArea Nanohole Arrays
[2605.29321] Quantum and classical noise characteristics of parametrically driven cavity solitons in dispersive Kerr resonators
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.29321: Quantum and classical noise characteristics of parametrically driven cavity solitons in dispersive Kerr resonators
[2605.29536] Quantum optics of chiral and antichiral waveguide arrays
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.29536: Quantum optics of chiral and antichiral waveguide arrays
[2508.11769] Macroscopic Schrödinger-cat states of nonequilibrium electrons induced by cat-state optical driving and projective measurements on the light field
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2508.11769: Macroscopic Schrödinger-cat states of nonequilibrium electrons induced by cat-state optical driving and projective me...
[2605.29421] Learning Design Skills as Memory Policies for Agentic Photonic Inverse Design
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.29421: Learning Design Skills as Memory Policies for Agentic Photonic Inverse Design
Generation of single-mode and two-mode quantum squeezed states of light by degenerate four-wave mixing in a plasmonic waveguide
Squeezed states of light represent one of the most fundamental concepts in quantum optics. They play a crucial role in various fields of science, quantum techno...
[2605.28383] Unity-order coupling between free electrons and multiphoton waveguided Fock states
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.28383: Unity-order coupling between free electrons and multiphoton waveguided Fock states
[2605.28815] A cryogenic apparatus for coupling two-dimensional materials to a confocal multimode optical cavity
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.28815: A cryogenic apparatus for coupling two-dimensional materials to a confocal multimode optical cavity
[2605.28322] Polarimetric Backscattering Setup for Quantitative Scattering Parameters Retrieval
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.28322: Polarimetric Backscattering Setup for Quantitative Scattering Parameters Retrieval
[2605.28458] Simultaneous Measurement of Circular Dichroism and Circular Differential Scattering
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.28458: Simultaneous Measurement of Circular Dichroism and Circular Differential Scattering
[2605.28506] Toward Micro-Endoscopy: Distal-Free, Configuration-Agnostic Focusing Through Multimode Fiber
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.28506: Toward Micro-Endoscopy: Distal-Free, Configuration-Agnostic Focusing Through Multimode Fiber
[2605.28689] Isotropic fabrication of centimeter-scale, low propagation-loss periodically poled lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides for efficient second harmonic generation
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.28689: Isotropic fabrication of centimeter-scale, low propagation-loss periodically poled lithium niobate nanophotonic wavegu...
[2605.28765] A variability-aware simulation and design workflow for wafer-scale, heterogeneously integrated lithium niobate modulators
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.28765: A variability-aware simulation and design workflow for wafer-scale, heterogeneously integrated lithium niobate modulat...