Full degree-of-freedom polarization hologram by freeform exposure and inkjet printing
PhotoniX, 2023 Since the invention of holography by Dennis Gabor, the fabrication of holograms has mainly relied on direct recording of wavefront by engraving the intensity fringes of interfering electric fields into the holographic material. The degree-of-freedom (DoF)
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Integrated photonic polarization synthesizer and analyzer [PDF]
Light: Science & ApplicationsPolarization-resolved control and measurement of optical fields are essential for a wide range of photonic systems, including coherent communication, polarimetric sensing, and quantum information processing.
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Nested SU(2) symmetry of photonic orbital angular momentum
Frontiers in Physics, 2023 The polarization state is described by a quantum mechanical two-level system, which is known as special unitary group of degree 2 [SU(2)]. Polarization is attributed to an internal spin degree of freedom inherent to photons, while photons also possess an
Shinichi Saito
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Multi-party semi-quantum key distribution protocol based on hyperentangled Bell states
Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Semi-quantum key distribution allows generating a raw key between two communication participants, in which the sender is a quantum participant and the receiver is a classical participant.
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Experiments and simulations of chiro-optical response in lowcost nanohole arrays in silver [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2022 2D metasurfaces based on periodic nanoholes in metal have been proposed in various plasmonic platforms. Specifically, their resonant features have led to applications spanning in biosensing.
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Intrinsic valley polarization and anomalous valley hall effect in single-layer 2H-FeCl2
ChemPhysMater, 2022 Valley, as a new degree of freedom for electrons, has drawn considerable attention due to its significant potential for encoding and storing information. Lifting the energy degeneracy to achieve valley polarization is necessary for realizing valleytronic
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Observing polarization patterns in the collective motion of nanomechanical arrays
Nature Communications, 2022 Coupled nanomechanical resonator arrays serve as model systems to study collective dynamical phenomena. Doster et al. introduce a two-dimensional array of pillar resonators encoding a mechanical polarization degree of freedom for analyzing polarization ...
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Experimental generation of arbitrary abruptly autofusing Circular Airy Gaussian vortex vector beams
Scientific Reports, 2022 Complex vector modes represent a general state of light nonseparable in their spatial and polarization degrees of freedom, which have inspired a wide variety of novel applications and phenomena, such as their unexpected propagation behaviour. For example,
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Room-temperature valley transistors for low-power neuromorphic computing
Nature Communications, 2022 Valleytronic devices employ the electronic valley degree of freedom to realize potential low-power electronic applications. Here, the authors utilize a topological semiconductor to engineer valley polarization transistors with long lifetimes and ...
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Resonant diffraction gratings with polarization-dependent efficiencies [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2020 Subwavelength-structures with different fill factors in the lateral dimensions result in unique phase shifts for the different polarization states of transmitted light. By using this additional degree of freedom for diffractive optical elements, we yield
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