Publications

2024

Deep quantum graph dreaming: deciphering neural network insights into quantum experiments

T. Jaouni, S. Arlt, C. Ruiz-Gonzalez, E. Karimi, X. Gu, M. Krenn, Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 5 015029, (2024). [Link] [PDF]

Propagation effects in polarization-gated attosecond soft-X-ray pulse generation

Sambit Mitra, Johannes Schötz, Chunmei Zhang, Dong Hyuk Ko, Zenghu Chang, Paul B. Corkum, André Staudte, and Matthias F. Kling, Opt. Express 32(2), 1151-1160 (2024)

2023

Hybrid architectures for terahertz molecular polaritonics

A. Jaber, M. Reitz, A. Singh, A. Maleki, Y. Xin, B. Sullivan, K. Dolgaleva, R. W. Boyd, C. Genes, J.-M. Ménard, arXiv:2304.03654 [under review at Nature Communications] (2023). [Link]

Weak measurements and quantum-to-classical transitions in free electron–photon interactions

Y. Pan, E. Cohen, E. Karimi, A. Gover, N. Schönenberger, T. Chlouba, K. Wang, S. Nehemia, P. Hommelhoff, I. Kaminer, Y. Aharonov, Light: Science & Applications 12 (1), 267 (2023). [Link] [PDF]

Single-pulse terahertz spectroscopy monitoring sub-millisecond time dynamics at a rate of 50 kHz

N. Couture, W. Cui, M. Lippl, R. Ostic, D. J. Jubgang Fandio, E. K. Yalavarthi, A. Vishnuradhan, A. Gamouras, N. Y. Joly, J.-M. Ménard, Nat Commun 14, 2595 (2023). [Link] [PDF]

Performance analysis of table-top single-pulse terahertz detection up to 1.1 MHz

N. Couture, M. Lippl, W. Cui, A. Gamouras, N. Y. Joly, J.-M. Ménard, arXiv:2309.09803 [physics.optics] [Link]

A Finite-Difference Time-Domain approach for dispersive magnetic media

J. Graf, J. Baxter, S. Sharma, S. Viola Kusminskiy, L. Ramunno, arXiv:2305.03770 [physics.optics] [Link]

Superresolution Enhancement in Biphoton Spatial-Mode Demultiplexing

F. Grenapin, D. Paneru, A. D’Errico, V. Grillo, G. Leuchs, E. Karimi, Phys. Rev. Applied 20, 024077 (2023). [Link] [PDF]

Digital Discovery of 100 diverse Quantum Experiments with PyTheus

C. Ruiz-Gonzalez, S. Arlt, J. Petermann, S. Sayyad, T. Jaouni, E. Karimi, N. Tischler, X. Gu, M. Krenn, Quantum 7, 1204 (2023). [Link] [PDF]

Experimental solutions to the high-dimensional mean king’s problem

T. Jaouni, X. Gao, S. Arlt, M. Krenn, E. Karimi, Optica Quantum 1, 49-54 (2023). [Link] [PDF]

2022

Lattice-plasmon-induced asymmetric transmission in two-dimensional chiral arrays

N. Apurv Chaitanya, M. A. T. Butt, O. Reshef, R. W. Boyd, P. Banzer, I. De Leon, APL Photonics 7, 016105 (2022). [Link] [PDF]

Classical model of spontaneous parametric down-conversion

G. Kulkarni, J. Rioux, B. Braverman, M. V. Chekhova, and R. W. Boyd, Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033098 (2022). [Link] [PDF]

Enhanced spin–orbit coupling in an epsilon-near-zero material

J. S. Eismann, L. Ackermann, B. Kantor, S. Nechayev, M. Z. Alam, R. Fickler, R. W. Boyd, and P. Banzer, Optica 9, 1094-1099 (2022). [Link] [PDF]

Spatiotemporal sampling of near-petahertz vortex fields

J. Blöchl, J. Schötz, A. Maliakkal, N. Šreibere, Z. Wang, P. Rosenberger, P. Hommelhoff, A. Staudte, P. B. Corkum, B. Bergues, M F. Kling, Optica 9 (7), 755-761 (2022) [Link]

Slow light, dynamic gratings and light storage

B. Stiller, H. Winful, R. Boyd, M. Merklein, Book chapter in “Brillouin Scattering Part 2”, ISBN: 978-0-323-98931-2, edited by Benjamin J. Eggleton, Michael J. Steel, Christopher G. Poulton, (2022).

2021

Kelvin’s chirality of optical beams

S. Nechayev, J. S. Eismann, R. Alaee, E. Karimi, R. W. Boyd, and P. Banzer, Phys. Rev. A 103, L031501 (2021). [Link] [PDF]

Compensation-free high-dimensional free-space optical communication using turbulence-resilient vector beams

Z. Zhu, M. Janasik, A. Fyffe, D. Hay, Y. Zhou, B. Kantor, T. Winder, R. W. Boyd, G. Leuchs, and Z. Shi, Nature Communications 12, 1666 (2021). [Link] [PDF]

Arbitrary optical wave evolution with Fourier transforms and phase masks

V. López Pastor, J. Lundeen, F. Marquardt, Opt. Express 29, 38441-38450 (2021). [Link] [PDF]

2020

Roadmap on quantum light spectroscopy

S. Mukamel, M. Freyberger, W. Schleich, M. Bellini, A. Zavatta, G. Leuchs, C. Silberhorn, R. W Boyd, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, A. Stefanov, M. Barbier, A. Paterova, L. Krivitsky, S. Shwartz, K. Tamasaku, K. Dorfman, F. Schlawin, V. Sandoghdar, M. Raymer, A. Marcus, O. Varnavski, T. Goodson III, Z.-Y. Zhou, B.-S. Shi, S. Asban, M. Scully, G. Agarwal, T. Peng, A. V. Sokolov, Z.-D. Zhang, M. S. Zubairy, I. A. Vartanyants, E. del Valle, and F. Laussy, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 53 072002 (2020). [Link] [PDF]

Kerker effect, superscattering, and scattering dark states in atomic antennas

R. Alaee, A. Safari, V. Sandoghdar, R. W. Boyd, Physical Review Research 2 , 043409 (2020). [Link] [PDF]

Properties of bright squeezed vacuum at increasing brightness

P. R. Sharapova, G. Frascella, M. Riabinin, A. M. Pérez, O. V. Tikhonova, S. Lemieux, R. W. Boyd, G. Leuchs, and M. V. Chekhova, Physical Review Research 2, 013371 (2020). [Link] [PDF]

Towards polarization-based excitation tailoring for extended Raman spectroscopy

S. Grosche, R. Hünermann, G. Sarau, S. Christiansen, R. W. Boyd, G. Leuchs, and P. Banzer, Optics Express 28, 10239-10252 (2020). [Link] [PDF]

Fundamental quantum limits in ellipsometry

Ł. Rudnicki, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, G. Leuchs, and R. W. Boyd, Optics Letters 45, 4607-4610 (2020) [Link] [PDF]

All normal dispersion nonlinear fibre supercontinuum source characterization and application in hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering microscopy

P. Abdolghader, A. F. Pegoraro, N. Y. Joly, A. Ridsdale, R. Lausten, F. Légaré, and A. Stolow, Opt. Express 28, 35997-36008 (2020). [Link] [PDF]

Full-field mode sorter using two optimized phase transformations for high-dimensional quantum cryptography

R. Fickler, F. Bouchard, E. Giese, V. Grillo, G. Leuchs, E. Karimi, Journal of Optics 22, 024001 (2020). [Link] [PDF]

Pump depletion in parametric down-conversion with low pump energies

J. Flórez, J. S. Lundeen, and M. V. Chekhova, Opt. Lett. 45, 4264-4267 (2020). [Link] [PDF]

2019

Multi-twist polarization ribbon topologies in highly-confined optical fields

T. Bauer, P. Banzer, F. Bouchard, S. Orlov, L. Marrucci, E. Santamato, R. W Boyd, E. Karimi, G. Leuchs, New Journal of Physics 21, 053020 (2019) [Link]

Interaction of light carrying orbital angular momentum with a chiral dipolar scatterer

P. Wozniak, I. De León, K. Hoeflich, G. Leuchs, P. Banzer, Optica 6, 961-965 (2019) [Link]

A primary radiation standard based on quantum nonlinear optics

S. Lemieux, E. Giese, R. Fickler, M. Chekhova, R. Boyd, Nat. Phys. (2019) [Link]

Investigating the optical properties of a laser induced 3D self‐assembled carbon–metal hybrid structure

M. Butt, A. C. Lesina, M. Neugebauer, T. Bauer, L. Ramunno, A. Vaccari, P. Berini, Y. Petrov, D. Danilov, A. Manshina, P. Banzer, G. Leuchs, Small, 1900512 (2019) [Link]

Nonlinear optics with full three-dimensional illumination

R. Penjweini, M. Weber, M. Sondermann, R. W. Boyd, and G. Leuchs, Optica 6, 878-883 (2019) [Link] [PDF]

Characterization of an underwater channel for quantum communications in the Ottawa River

F. Hufnagel, A. Sit, F. Grenapin, F. Bouchard, K. Heshami, D. England, Y. Zhang, B. J. Sussman, R. W. Boyd, G. Leuchs, and E. Karimi, Optics Express 27,26346-26354 (2019).  [Link] [PDF]

Adaptive compressive tomography with no a priori information

D. Ahn, Y. S. Teo, H. Jeong, F. Bouchard, F. Hufnagel, E. Karimi, D. Koutný, J. Řeháček, Z. Hradil, G. Leuchs, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, Physical Review Letters 122, 100404 (2019). [Link] [PDF]

Compressed sensing of twisted photons

F. Bouchard, D. Koutný, F. Hufnagel, Z. Hradil, J. Řeháček, Y.-S. Teo, D. Ahn, H. Jeong, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, G. Leuchs, E. Karimi, Optics Express 27, 17426-17434 (2019). [Link] [PDF]

Structured quantum projectiles

H. Larocque, R. Fickler, E. Cohen, V. Grillo, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, G. Leuchs, E. Karimi, Phys. Rev. A 99, 023628 (2019). [Link] [PDF]

2018

Twisting Neutrons may Reveal Their Internal Structure

H. Larocque, I. Kaminer, V. Grillo, R. W. Boyd, and E. Karimi, Nature Physics 14, 1 (2018) [Link] [PDF]

‘Twisted’ electrons

H. Larocque, I. Kaminer, V. Grillo, G. Leuchs, M. J. Padgett, R. W. Boyd, M. Segev, E. Karimi, Contemporary Physics, 1-19 (2018) [Link]

Towards an integrated AlGaAs waveguide platform for phase and polarisation shaping

G. Maltese, Y. Halioua, A. Lemaître, C. Gomez-Carbonell, E. Karimi, P. Banzer, S. Ducci, Journal of Optics 20, 05LT01 (2018) [Link]

Chiroptical response of a single plasmonic nanohelix

P. Woźniak, I. De Leon, K. Höflich, C. Haverkamp, S. Christiansen, G. Leuchs, P. Banzer, Optics Express 26, 19275-19293 (2018) [Link]

Quantum Cryptography with Twisted Photons through an Outdoor Underwater Channel

F. Bouchard, A. Sit, F. Hufnagel, A. Abbas, Y. Zhang, K. Heshami, R. Fickler, C. Marquardt, G. Leuchs, R. W. Boyd, E. Karimi, Optics Express 26, 20800 (2018) [Link]

Bright squeezed vacuum in a nonlinear interferometer: Frequency and temporal Schmidt-mode description

P. R. Sharapova, O. V. Tikhonova, S. Lemieux, R. W. Boyd, and M. V. Chekhova, Phys. Rev. A 97, 053827 (2018) [Link]

Broadband and tunable terahertz source using argon-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber

W. Cui, A. W. Schiff-Kearn, E. Zhang, N. Couture, F. Tani, D. Novoa, P. St.J. Russell and J.-M. Ménard, APL Photonics 3, 111301 (2018) [Link]

2017

Sorting Photons by Radial Quantum Number

Y. Zhou, M. Mirhosseini, D. Fu, J. Zhao, S. M. H. Rafsanjani, A. E. Willner, and R. W. Boyd, Physical Review Letters 119, 263602 (2017) [Link] [PDF]

Orbital angular momentum modes of high-gain parametric down-conversion

L. Beltran, G. Frascella, A. Perez, R. Fickler, P. Sharapova, M. Manceau, O. Tikhonova, R. W. Boyd, G. Leuchs, and M. V. Chekhova, Journal of Optics 19, 044005 (2017) [Link]

Roadmap on structured light

H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, A. Forbes, M. V. Berry, M. R. Dennis, D. L. Andrews, M. Mansuripur, C. Denz, Ch. Alpmann, P. Banzer, T. Bauer, E. Karimi, L. Marrucci, M. Padgett, M. Ritsch-Marte, N. M. Litchinitser, N. P. Bigelow, C. Rosales-Guzmán, A. Belmonte, J. P. Torres, T. W. Neely, M. Baker, R. Gordon, A. B. Stilgoe, J. Romero, A. G. White, R. Fickler, A. E. Willner, G. Xie, B. McMorran, A. M. Weiner, Journal of Optics 19, 013001 (2017) [Link]

Free-space propagation of high-dimensional structured optical fields in an urban environment

M. P. J. Lavery, Ch. Peuntinger, K. Günthner, P. Banzer, D. Elser, R. W. Boyd, M. J. Padgett, Ch. Marquardt, and G. Leuchs, Science Advances 3, e1700552 (2017) [Link]

High-dimensional intracity quantum cryptography with structured photons

A. Sit, F. Bouchard, R. Fickler, J. Gagnon-Bischoff, H. Larocque, K. Heshami, D. Elser, C. Peuntinger, K. Guenthner, B. Heim, C. Marquardt, G. Leuchs, R.W. Boyd, E. Karimi, Optica 4, 1006-1010 (2017) [Link]

Quantum metrology at the limit with extremal Majorana constellations

F. Bouchard, P. de la Hoz, G. Bjork, R.W. Boyd, M. Grassl, Z. Hradil, E. Karimi, A.B. Klimov, G. Leuchs, J. Rehacek, L.L. Sanchez-Soto, Optica 4, 1429-1432 (2017) [Link]

Phase sensitivity of gain-unbalanced nonlinear interferometers

E. Giese, S. Lemieux, M. Manceau, R. Fickler, R.W. Boyd, PRA 96, 053863 (2017) [Link]

2016

The duality principle in the presence of postselection

J. Leach, E. Bolduc, F. M. Miatto, K. Piché, G. Leuchs, R. W. Boyd, Scientific Reports 6, 19944 (2016) [Link]

Tighter spots of light with superposed orbital angular momentum beams

P. Wozniak, P. Banzer, F. Bouchard, E. Karimi, G. Leuchs, R. W. Boyd, Phys. Rev. A 94, 021803(R) (2016) [Link]

Broadband electric-field-induced LP01 and LP02 second harmonic generation in Xe-filled hollow-core PCF

J.-M. Ménard, F. Köttig, and P. St.J. Russell, Optics Letters 41, 3795-3798 (2016) [Link]

Chiral optical response of planar and symmetric nanotrimers enabled by heteromaterial selection

P. Banzer, P. Wozniak, U. Mick, I. De Leon, R. W. Boyd, Nature Communications 7, Article number: 13117 (2016) [Link]

Exotic Looped Trajectories of Photons in Three-Slit Interference

O. S. Magana-Loaiza, I. De Leon, M. Mirhosseini, R. Fickler, A. Safari, U. Mick, B. McIntyre, P. Banzer, B. Rodenburg, G. Leuchs, R. W. Boyd, Nature Communications 7, Article number: 13987 (2016) [Link]

Engineering the frequency spectrum of bright squeezed vacuum via group velocity dispersion in an SU(1,1) interferometer

S. Lemieux, M. Manceau, P. R. Sharapova, O. V. Tikhonova, R. W. Boyd, G. Leuchs, and M. V. Chekhova, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 183601 (2016) [Link]

Single-mode squeezing in arbitrary spatial modes

M. Semmler, S. Berg-Johansen, V. Chille, Ch. Gabriel, P. Banzer, A. Aiello, Ch. Marquardt, and G. Leuchs , Optics Express 24, 7, 7633-7642 (2016) [Link]

Polarization-controlled directional scattering for nanoscopic position sensing

M. Neugebauer, P. Wozniak, A. Bag, G. Leuchs, and P. Banzer, Nature Communications 7, Article number: 11286 (2016) [Link]

Optical Polarization Möbius Strips and Points of Purely Transverse Spin Density

T. Bauer, M. Neugebauer, G. Leuchs, and P. Banzer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 013601 (2016) [Link]

2015

Projective filtering of the fundamental eigenmode from spatially multimode radiation

A. M. Pérez, P. R. Sharapova, S. S. Straupe, F. M. Miatto, O. V. Tikhonova, G. Leuchs, and M. V. Chekhova, Physical Review A 92, 053861 (2015) [Link]

Observation of optical polarization Möbius strips

T. Bauer, P. Banzer, E. Karimi, S. Orlov, A. Rubano, L. Marrucci, E. Santamato, R. W. Boyd and G. Leuchs, Science 347, 964-966 (2015) [Link]

Nonlinear interferometer for tailoring the frequency spectrum of bright squeezed vacuum

T. Sh. Iskhakov, S. Lemieux, A. Perez, R. W. Boyd, G. Leuchs, and M. V. Chekhova, Journal of Modern Optics 63, 64 (2015) [Link]

Strong, spectrally-tunable chirality in diffractive metasurfaces

I. De Leon, M. J. Horton, S. A. Schulz, J. Upham, P. Banzer and R. W. Boyd, Scientific Reports 5, 13034 (2015) [Link]

Experimental realization of quantum tomography of photonic qudits via symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measures

N. Bent, H. Qassim, A. A. Tahir, D. Sych, G. Leuchs, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, E. Karimi, and R. W. Boyd, Phys. Rev. X 5, 041006 (2015) [Link]

Exploiting cellophane birefringence to generate radially and azimuthally polarised vector beams

J. Kalwe, M. Neugebauer, C. Ominde, G. Leuchs, G. Rurimo and P. Banzer, Eur. J. Phys. 36, 025011 (2015) [Link]

Measuring the Transverse Spin Density of Light

M. Neugebauer, T. Bauer, A. Aiello and P. Banzer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 063901 (2015) [Link]

Selective switching of individual multipole resonances in single dielectric nanoparticles

P. Wozniak, P. Banzer and G. Leuchs, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 9: 231-240 (2015) [Link]

Classically entangled optical beams for high-speed kinematic sensing

S. Berg-Johansen, F. Töppel, B. Stiller, P. Banzer, M. Ornigotti, E. Giacobino, G. Leuchs, A. Aiello, and Ch. Marquardt, Optica 2, 864-868 (2015) [Link]

From transverse angular momentum to photonic wheels

A. Aiello, P. Banzer, M. Neugebauer and G. Leuchs, Nature Photonics 9, 789–795 (2015) [Link]

Quantum uncertainty in the beam width of spatial optical modes

V. Chille, P. Banzer, A. Aiello, G. Leuchs, Ch. Marquardt, N. Treps, and C. Fabre, Opt. Express 23, 32777-32787 (2015) [Link]

2014

Fair sampling perspective on an apparent violation of duality

E. Bolduc, J. Leach, F. M. Miatto, G. Leuchs, and R. W. Boyd, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 111, 12337 (2014) [Link]

Radial quantum number of Laguerre-Gauss modes

E. Karimi, R. W. Boyd, P. de la Hoz, H. de Guise, J. Řeháček, Z. Hradil, A. Aiello, G. Leuchs, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto, Physical Review A 89, 063813 (2014) [Link]

Bright squeezed-vacuum source with 1.1 spatial mode

A. M. Pérez, T. Sh. Iskhakov, P. Sharapova, S. Lemieux, O. V. Tikhonova, M. V. Chekhova, and G. Leuchs, Opt. Lett. 39, 2403 (2014) [Link]

Transition between Mechanisms of Laser-Induced Field-Free Molecular Orientation

I. Znakovskaya, M. Spanner, S. De, H. Li, D. Ray, P. Corkum, I. V. Litvinyuk, C. L. Cocke, and M. F. Kling, Physical Review Letters 112, 113005 (2014) [Link]

Atmospheric continuous-variable quantum communication

B Heim, C. Peuntinger, N. Killoran, I. Khan, C. Wittmann, Ch. Marquardt and G Leuchs, New J. Phys. 16 113018 (2014) [Link]

Identifying modes of large whispering-gallery mode resonators from the spectrum and emission pattern

G. Schunk, J. U. Fürst, M. Förtsch, D. V. Strekalov, U. Vogl, F. Sedlmeir, H. G. L. Schwefel, G. Leuchs, and Ch. Marquardt, Opt. Express 22, 30795-30806 (2014) [Link]