Optically levitated multiple nanoparticles have emerged as a platform for studying complex fundamental physics such as non-equilibrium phenomena, quantum entanglement, and light-matter interaction, which could be applied for sensing weak forces and torques with high sensitivity and accuracy. An optical trapping landscape of increased complexity is needed to engineer the interaction between levitated particles beyond the single harmonic trap. However, existing platforms based on spatial light modulators for studying interactions between levitated particles suffered from low efficiency, instability at focal points, the complexity of optical systems, and the scalability for sensing applications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMode localization, predicted in solid-state physics, has attracted great attention in coupled micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) resonators for ultrasensitive sensing. Compared to MEMS resonators, optical microresonators can achieve high-quality factors without the need for vacuum conditions. In this work, we extended the mode localization effect to integrated optical microresonators, and experimentally demonstrated, for the first time, mode localized sensing in coupled optical microresonators.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVortex beams that carry orbital angular moment (OAM) have recently attracted a great amount of research interest, and metasurfaces and planar microcavities have emerged as two prominent, but mostly separated, methods for Si chip-based vortex beam emission. In this work, we demonstrate in numerical simulation for the first time the hybridization of these two existing methods in a Si chip-based passive emitter (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMode localization is widely used in coupled micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) resonators for ultra-sensitive sensing. Here, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, we experimentally demonstrate the phenomenon of optical mode localization in fiber-coupled ring resonators. For an optical system, resonant mode splitting happens when multiple resonators are coupled.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFlat, gradient index, metasurface optics - in particular all-dielectric metalenses - have emerged and evolved over recent years as compact, lightweight alternative to their conventional bulk glass/crystal counterparts. Here we show that the focal properties of all-dielectric metalenses can be switched via coherent control, which is to say by changing the local electromagnetic field in the metalens plane rather than any physical or geometric property of the nanostructure or surrounding medium. The selective excitation of predominantly electric or magnetic resonant modes in the constituent cells of the metalens provides for switching, by design, of its phase profile enabling binary switching of focal length for a given lens type and, uniquely, switching between different (spherical and axicon) lens types.
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February 2022
Generalized vector vortex light beams possess spatially variant polarization states, and higher-order Poincaré spheres represent a powerful analytical tool for analyzing these intriguing and complicated optical fields. For the generation of these vortex beams, a range of different methods have been explored, with an increasing emphasis placed on compact, integrated devices. Here, we demonstrate via numerical simulation, for the first time, an on-chip light emitter that allows for the controllable generation of all points on a first-order Poincaré sphere (FOPS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper proposes a novel on-chip optical pulse train generator (OPTG) based on optomechanical oscillation (OMO). The OPTG consists of an optical cavity and mechanical resonator, in which OMO periodically modulates the optical cavity field and consequently generates optical pulse trains. The dimensionless method are introduced to simulate the OMO-based OPTG with reduced analysis complexity.
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