Panelist: Shadrivov

Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Single-frequency 3D synthetic aperture imaging with dynamic metasurface antennas
    • One metamaterial emitter and one detector can replace 100 conventional antennas. Authors of this work have demonstrated that working at a single frequency and using specially designed metamaterial elements, they can...
    • Appl. Opt. 57(15) 4123-4134 (2018) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Refractive index less than two: photonic nanojets yesterday, today and tomorrow [Invited]
    • Starting their review from observations recorded 2,000 years ago, the authors look at the development of one of the tiniest lenses that are now able to focus light in a nanojet. Light refraction in small dielectric...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(6) 1820-1847 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • High-efficiency reflective metasurfaces for terahertz vortex wave generation based on completely independent geometric phase modulations at three frequencies
    • Artificially structured surfaces, or metasurfaces, have their functionality defined by the actual structure. Quite often the desired electromagnetic properties are achieved just in a narrow frequency range, because the...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 39(7) 1752-1761 (2022) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • High efficiency ambient RF energy harvesting by a metamaterial perfect absorber
    • Wireless power transfer is an important topic, and many devices these days are charged without any cables. This process typically requires dedicated charging devices. Researchers from USA went further and decided to...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 12(3) 1242-1250 (2022) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • High frequency meta-ferroelectrics by inverse design
    • It has been known that metamaterials offer enhanced nonlinear and tunable properties, and their response to tuning stimulus is larger than that of the constituent components individually. In this work, researchers from...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 11(5) 1457-1469 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Broadband terahertz absorber with gradient ring resonators based on a discrete spiral topological distribution
    • Artificial absorbers of electromagnetic energy often use resonant effects to achieve efficient absorption, therefore they often work only in a narrow frequency range. In this work, researchers from China proposed a...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(3) 850-857 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Unidirectional ultrabroadband and wide-angle absorption in graphene-embedded photonic crystals with the cascading structure comprising the Octonacci sequence
    • The band-gap effects in Bragg structures are currently applied in high quality reflectors and band-pass filters; they are typically narrow-band. In this work, Guo et al. aimed at designing broadband absorbers,...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37(9) 2678-2687 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Tunable and broadband coherent perfect absorption by ultrathin black phosphorus metasurfaces
    • Atomically-thin materials have limited interaction with electromagnetic radiation. By utilizing clever structuring, however, physicists from the USA proposed that such thin materials can absorb nearly 100% of radiation...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(11) 2962-2971 (2019) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Achieving full-color generation with polarization-tunable perfect light absorption
    • People have been making paints for thousands of years, but now nanotechnology deliveres a novel approach for creating full-color images by printing nanopatterns out of aluminium. Researchers from the U.S. and China...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 9(2) 779-787 (2019) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Reconfigurable near-IR metasurface based on Ge2Sb2Te5 phase-change material
    • Tunable composite optical materials with tailored properties are highly sought after. The near-infrared and visible frequency ranges remain the most challenging for achieving strong and fast tunability. Authors of this...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 8(8) 2264-2275 (2018) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Improving emission uniformity and linearizing band dispersion in nanowire arrays using quasi-aperiodicity
    • Arrays of nanopillars can act as efficient lasers; however, one of the obstacles for the use of such structures is that they radiate energy into a doughnut-like pattern. By breaking the periodicity of the structures...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(10) 3634-3642 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Analytical qualitative modeling of passive and active metamaterials [Invited]
    • Interaction of light with matter has been studied for centuries. With the advances in fabrication of artificial materials with unusual properties, it became important to describe them analytically to gain insight in...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34(8) 1597-1623 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Photonic-crystal hydrogels with a rapidly tunable stop band and high reflectivity across the visible
    • Hydrogels have an extremely wide spectrum of applications, from soft contact lenses to selective drug delivery and from glues to moisture control elements. In this work the authors present yet another application of...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 7(1) 253-263 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Terahertz saturable absorption in superconducting metamaterials
    • Terahertz frequency range still remains the least explored part of the electromagnetic spectrum; however, this is being rapidly rectified by the research community. As an example, in the past several years we have seen...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 33(12) 2649-2655 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • High temperature epsilon-near-zero and epsilon-near-pole metamaterial emitters for thermophotovoltaics
    • Solar panels are becoming more and more widespread, and they can be seen in different backgrounds, from individual houses to space stations, providing electricity on the scales of solar power plants to portable...
    • Opt. Express 21(S1) A96-A110 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Low-loss plasmonic metamaterial based on epitaxial gold monocrystal film
    • Modern physics establishes links between many areas of research and pushes technological limits. Metamaterials and plasmonics are amongst such multidisciplinary branches of physics, as they require the best material...
    • Opt. Express 20(9) 9545-9550 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Waveguides in three-dimensional photonic bandgap materials for particle-accelerator on a chip architectures
    • When you hear ‘particle accelerator’ you picture something very large, probably spanning over several kilometres. Researchers from Germany and United States have managed to make a prototype of a new accelerator that is...
    • Opt. Express 20(5) 5607-5612 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Low-power continuous-wave generation of visible harmonics in silicon photonic crystal nanocavities
    • What functional device can you make on a few micrometer piece of silicon that will operate with a few microwatts of light power? Research groups from Italy and the United Kingdom joined their efforts to demonstrate a...
    • Opt. Express 18(25) 26613-26624 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Temperature control of Fano resonances and transmission in superconducting metamaterials
    • Metamaterials do not often get cooler than this! A research group from Southampton and their collaborators used high-temperature superconductors cooled to 77K for creating new metamaterials.

      Metamaterials are...
    • Opt. Express 18(9) 9015-9019 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Omnidirectional transformation-optics cloak made from lenses and glenses
    • Geometric optics is the most developed and the most intuitive part of optics. At least this is the impression you are likely to have before you read this manuscript. The authors of this work go beyond conventional...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 33(6) 1032-1040 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Splitting of a Tamm plasmon polariton at the interface between a metal and a resonant nanocomposite layer conjugated with a photonic crystal
    • There is a large variety of optical waveguides that, apart from structural difference, demonstrate different properties such as dispersion, attenuation and mode localization. In this work, scientists from Russia...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38(6) 1792-1797 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Al:ZnO as a platform for near-zero-index photonics: enhancing the doping efficiency of atomic layer deposition
    • Fabrication of materials with predefined physical properties is in demand in many areas of physics. In this work, researchers from the US have explored the multi-dimensional fabrication space and produced thin films of...
    • Opt. Mater. Express 10(12) 3060-3072 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF   [1]

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • NIR spectrum estimation utilizing a photonic crystal distributed passband-type multiple filter array
    • When you choose quality fruit and vegetables, you rely on their appearance and on your experience. Imagine how much easier and accurate this process would be if there were a small camera-like device that could...
    • Appl. Opt. 58(12) 3166-3173 (2019) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • Graphene metamaterial spatial light modulator for infrared single pixel imaging
    • We are used to cameras with multi-megapixel resolution, however such imaging capabilities are not available in all frequency ranges. Each pixel represents a detector, and as we go to longer wavelengths, such as infrared...
    • Opt. Express 25(21) 25318-25325 (2017) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

    • FDTD analysis of the optical black hole
    • These days, if you want to get light… think "Black Hole." The concept of the optical black hole allows us to expect improved performance of photovoltaic cells for generating electricity from the solar...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(10) 2020-2025 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

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