funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.52130504,52305577,and 52175509);the Key Research and Development Plan of Hubei Province(Grant No.2022BAA013);the Major Program(JD)of Hubei Province(Grant No.2023BAA008-2);the Interdisciplinary Research Program of Huazhong University of Science and Technology(2023JCYJ047);the Innovation Project of Optics Valley Laboratory(Grant No.OVL2023PY003);the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program(Grade B)of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.GZB20230244);the fellowship from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2024M750995)。
In integrated circuit(IC)manufacturing,fast,nondestructive,and precise detection of defects in patterned wafers,realized by bright-field microscopy,is one of the critical factors for ensuring the final performance and...
supported by the National Key Research Project(2022YFE0134500);the West Light Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences(xbzgzdsys-202018);the CAS Youth Interdisciplinary Team(JCTD-2022-19);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22335007,22361132544);the Tianshan Innovation Team(2022TSYCTD0005);the Xinjiang Major Science and Technology Project(2021A01001).
Birefringence is crucial for birefringent crystals to modulate polarized light and nonlinear optical crystals to enable phasematching.It is closely related to the arrangement of advantageous functional groups with lar...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFB3601501);the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,Chinese Academy of Scineces(CAS,ZDBSLY-SLH035);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22193044,61835014,and 51972336);West Light Foundation of CAS(2019-YDYLTD002);the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang(2021D01E05);CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research(YSBR-024);Xinjiang Major Science and Technology Project(2021A01001);CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative(PIFI,2020PM0046);Tianshan Basic Research Talents(2022TSYCJU0001);Kruglov IA and Bereznikova LA thank the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation(FSMG2021-0005)。
Finding crystals with high birefringence(Δn),especially in deep-ultraviolet(DUV)regions,is important for developing polarization devices such as optical fiber sensors.Such materials are usually discovered using exper...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of the People's Republic of China“Mechanistic study of the influence of ns^(2) cation intrinsic properties and coordination environment on birefringence and frequency doubling effects”(12264047),“The study of the mechanism of the influence of lead-oxygen polyhedra and their coordination environments on the gain of the frequency doubling effect”(11864040);Tianshan Talent Project of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China“Design,synthesis and photofunctional study of novel rare earth phosphate materials”(2022TSYCJU0004)。
The stereochemically active lone pairs around post-transition metal atoms play an important role in determining distorted lattice structure and optical response.The lone pair electrons are characterized by crystal orb...
funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under grant agreement no.899673;This work reflects only authors’view and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.G.D.V.acknowledges the support from the HOTMETA project under the PRIN 2022 MUR program funded by the European Union—Next Generation EU—“PNRR-M4C2,investimento 1.1—“Fondo PRIN 2022”—HOT-carrier METasurfaces for Advanced photonics(HOTMETA);contract no.2022LENW33—CUP:D53D23002290006”.A.S.,G.C.,M.M.and G.D.V.acknowledge financial support by the European Union’s NextGenerationEU Programme with the I-PHOQS Infrastructure[IR0000016,ID D2B8D520,CUP B53C22001750006]“Integrated infrastructure initiative in Photonic and Quantum Sciences”.The work is partly supported by the French RENATECH network;support by the European Union-NextGenerationEU,through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Republic of Bulgaria,SUMMIT BG-RRP-2.004-0008-C0.DN acknowledges the support of the Australian Research Council(CE200100010).
Switching of light polarization on the sub-picosecond timescale is a crucial functionality for applications in a variety of contexts,including telecommunications,biology and chemistry.The ability to control polarizati...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61935002,61975113,and 62275148);111 Project(No.D20031);the Shanghai Professional Technical Public Service Platform of Advanced Optical Waveguide Intelligent Manufacturing and Testing(No.19DZ2294000);the Jiangsu Province’s Industry Outlook and Key Core Technologies–Key Projects(No.BE2022055-4)。
A high-birefringence fiber,Tb:YAG crystal-derived silica fiber(TYDSF),was fabricated by CO_(2)laser-heating drawing technique.Its linear birefringence was 2.99×10^(-5),and it was used to fabricate an all-fiber quarte...
supported by Shanghai Cooperation Organization Science and Technology Partnership Program(2020E01039);the Scientific Instrument Developing Project,CAS(YJKYYQ20210033);CAS Youth Interdisciplinary Team(JCTD-2021–18);the West Light Foundation of CAS(2021-XBQNXZ-004);the Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project of Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang(2022D01E90);Key Training Object of Talent Project of Urumqi。
As a fundamental parameter of the optical crystals,birefringence plays a vital role in many optical applications,such as phase modulation,light splitting,and polarization,especially the phase matching process of the n...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22001142);Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2022MB093);Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province(A2021208013);Hebei Province Department of Education Fund(QN2022149).
An organic-inorganic hybrid antimony(Ⅲ)oxalate(C_(5)H_(6)ON)_(2)[Sb_(2)O(C_(2)O_(4))_(3)]has been successfully obtained by simultaneous combination of a-conjugated 4-hydroxypyridine and(C_(2)O_(4))^(2-)group with ste...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12274462 and 11674396);the Department of Science and Technology of Hunan Province of China (Grant Nos. 2017RS3039 and 2018JJ1033);the Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate of China (Grant No. QL20210006)。
Compared with well-developed free space polarization converters, polarization conversion between TE and TM modes in the waveguide is generally considered to be caused by shape birefringence, like curvature, morphology...
supported by the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(No.2017SHZDZX02);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12205360);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.2018297)。
We report on using synthetic silicon for a high-precision X-ray polarimeter comprising a polarizer and an analyzer,each based on a monolithic channel-cut crystal used at multiple Brewster reflections with a Bragg angl...