Frontiers

Plane-wave scattering by asymmetric mesoscale semicylinder: controllable formation of multiple interrelated photonic nanojets

This work reveals new possibilities for creating controllable photonic nanojets (PNJs) and their complexes, “photonic multijets” (PMJs), characterized by the specific morphological and ...
C&EN

Temporal Dynamics of Collective Resonances in Periodic Metasurfaces

Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, P.O. Box 13500, Aalto FI-00076, Finland Department of Physics of Information in Matter and Center for Nanophotonics, NWO-I Institute AMOLF, Science ...
C&EN

Time-Resolved Temperature Mapping Leveraging the Strong Thermo-Optic Effect in Phase-Change Materials

University of Maryland, Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States University of Maryland, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, ...
Frontiers

Wind turbines as a metamaterial-like urban layer: an experimental investigation using a dense seismic array and complementary sensing technologies

The deflection and the control of the effects of the complex urban seismic wavefield on the built environment is a major challenge in earthquake engineering. The interactions between the soil and the ...
Nature

Random lasing in an Anderson localizing optical fiber

A directional random laser mediated by transverse Anderson localization in a disordered glass optical fiber is reported. Previous demonstrations of random lasers have found limited applications ...