We realize a tunable laser based on a liquid crystal optical microcavity doped with the pyrromethene 580 organic dye. The tunable range reaches 40 nm. By transforming the system into the Rashba-Dresselhaus coupling regime, the laser action takes place from the bottoms of two oppositely polarized valleys shifted apart in reciprocal space. Measurements of emissions in real space show the persistent spin-helix lasing, which is a consequence of the spin coherence of the system. The platform that we propose can be used in quantum communication, in which information is encoded through light polarization.
In this work we realize an optical resonator incorporating nematic liquid crystal in which photonic cavity modes are in strong light-matter coupling regime with excitons in a 2D organic-inorganic perovskite layer. Using electric field tunability provided by the liquid crystal we can bring our structure to the regime of Rashba-Dresselhaus spin orbit coupling. By a preparation of the orienting polymer layers within the cavity to break inversion symmetry of the liquid crystal layer we were able to engineer polariton energy band structure exhibiting locally non-zero photonic Berry curvature, which can be tuned by an external electric field.
In this work we, propose a tunable 2D-hydrid epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) platform in telecom windows. Taking advantage to the intrinsically ENZ of the Indium-thin-oxide (ITO) and exploiting the graphene capability to dynamically tune the plasmon polaritons we were able to adjust the cross-over frequency, where the epsilon vanishes, in four telecom bandwidth windows. Additionally, tunabilty can be achieved via electrical gating of the ITO leading to an interplay modulation of the surface plasmon polaritons at the graphene-ITO interface. Furthermore, a giant Purcell factor (PF) was observed at ENZ regimes. These results show how 2D-hybrid ENZ materials potentially find applications in multifunctional nonlinear nanophotonic systems such as ultrafast modulators, data processing and photonic quantum computers (QPCs).
In this paper a two liquid crystal (LC) modulators for mid-wave infrared radiation (MWIR) are presented. A two electrooptical effects (EOE) in liquid crystalline structures have been utilized for MWIR modulation: electric field induced cholesteric - nematic (Ch-N*) phase transition (ChN mode) and switching of the twisted-nematic (TN) structure (TN mode). At the Ch-N* mode an intensity modulation depth was of order of 15% but there wasn’t a dark state. In case of the modulation induced at TN mode was near full. These modulators are quite slow, switching times are order of a few hundreds of milliseconds for Ch-N* mode electrooptical effect and dozens of minutes in case of TN mode.
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