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Bloch surface waves at the telecommunication wavelength with lithium niobate as the top layer for integrated optics

Hans Peter Herzig, Myun Sik Kim, Maria-Pilar Bernal

Lithium niobate (LN)-based devices are widely used in integrated and nonlinear optics. This material is robust and resistive to high temperatures, which makes the LN-based devices stable, but challenging to fabricate. In this work, we report on the design, ...

2019

Magnetic spin–orbit interaction of light

Hans Peter Herzig, Myun Sik Kim, Maria-Pilar Bernal, Huihui Lü

We study the directional excitation of optical surface waves controlled by the magnetic field of light. We theoretically predict that a spinning magnetic dipole develops a tunable unidirectional coupling of light to transverse electric (TE) polarized Bloch ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Magnetic Spin-Orbit Interaction of Light Steers Bloch Surface Waves

Hans Peter Herzig, Myun Sik Kim, Maria-Pilar Bernal, Huihui Lü

We show the directional excitation of Bloch surface waves controlled by the magnetic field of light. The phenomenon in play is the first magnetic spin-orbit interaction of light. It opens new degrees of freedom in the manipulation of light and offers appea ...

2018

Magnetic spin-orbit interaction of light steers Bloch surface waves

Hans Peter Herzig, Myun Sik Kim, Maria-Pilar Bernal, Huihui Lü

IEEE2018

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Strong nonlinear, electro-optical, and thermo-optical properties of lithium niobate (LN) have gained much attention. However, the implementation of LiNbO3 in real devices is not a trivial task due to difficulties in manufacturing and handling thin-film LN. ...

Optical Soc Amer2017

Polarization controlled directional propagation of Bloch Surface Wave

Hans Peter Herzig, Myun Sik Kim, Maria-Pilar Bernal

Bloch surface waves (BSWs) are recently developing alternative to surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Due to dramatically enhanced propagation distance and strong field confinement these surface states can be successfully used in on-chip all-optical integra ...

Optical Society of America2017

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Bloch surface waves (BSWs) are electromagnetic surface waves which can be excited at the interface between periodic dielectric multilayer and a surrounding medium. In comparison with surface plasmon polaritons these surface states perform high quality fact ...

2016

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A novel one dimensional photonic crystal (1DPHC) sustaining Bloch surface waves (BSWs) with a single crystal thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) as a part of a multilayer is theoretically and experimentally investigated. Properties of the dielectric multilaye ...

2016

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We report on a photonic crystal (PhC) etched into a 380 nm thick lithium niobate (LN) thin film deposited on a MgO substrate by pulsed laser deposition. The transmission properties of this device were assessed by optical near-field measurements and compare ...

2009

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We report on a heterodyne interferometric scanning near-field optical microscope developed for characterizing, at the nanometric scale, refractive index variations in thin films. An optical lateral resolution of 80 nm (lambda/19) and a precision smaller th ...

American Institute of Physics2009