We report on the generation of photonic nanojets, which resemble optical bottle beams. They are realized by manipulating the illumination of dielectric microspheres. As illumination we use the outer region of deliberately truncated Bessel-Gauss beam or a focused Gaussian beam with intentionally induced spherical aberrations. For the Bessel-Gauss beam possessing a single side lobe only, the nano...

This letter describes the design, fabrication and characterization of high-Q oval resonators based on slot waveguide geometries in thin silicon-on-insulator material. Optical quality factors of up to 27 000 were measured in such filters, and we estimate losses of 210 dB/cm in the slotted waveguides on the basis of our resonator measurements. Such waveguides enable the concentration of light to ...

Isotropic optical focusing - the focusing of light with axial confinement that matches its lateral confinement, is important for a broad range of applications. Conventionally, such focusing is achieved by overlapping the focused beams from a pair of opposite-facing microscope objective lenses. However the exacting requirements for the alignment of the objective lenses and the method's relative ...

Optical phonon confinement and efficient UV emission of ZnO nanowires were investigated in use of resonant Raman scattering (RRS) and photoluminescence (PL). The high-quality ZnO nanowires with diameters of 80-100 nm and lengths of several micrometers were epitaxially grown through a simple low-pressure vapor-phase deposition method at temperature 550 degrees C on the precoated GaN(0001) buffer...

We calculate the optical absorption spectra of low-energy uncapped zinc sulfide nanostructures found by global optimisation (basin-hopping/simulated annealing) using time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) and compare the results with experimental spectra. We predict that for all nanostructures studied the lowest excited state found by TD-DFT corresponds to an exciton with an exciton ...

A novel photonic crystal lattice is proposed for trapping a two-dimensional array of particles. The lattice is created by introducing a rectangular slot in each unit cell of the Suzuki-Phase lattice to enhance the light confinement of guided resonance modes. Large quality factors on the order of 10⁵ are predicted in the lattice. A significant decrease of the optical power required for optical t...

Typical integrated optical phase tuners alter the effective index. In this paper, we explore tuning by geometric deformation. We show that tuning efficiency, VπL, improves as the device size shrinks down to the optimal bend radius, contrary to conventional index-shift based approaches where VπL remains constant. We demonstrate that this approach is capable of ultra-low power tuning across a ful...