Next-generation polarized mid-infrared imaging systems generally requires miniaturization, integration, flexibility, good workability at room temperature and in severe environments, etc. Emerging two-dimensional materials provide another route to meet these demands, due to the ease of integrating on complex structures, their native in-plane anisotropy crystal structure for high polarization photosensitivity, and strong quantum confinement for excellent photodetecting performances at room temperature. However, polarized infrared imaging under scattering based on 2D materials has yet to be realized. Here we report the systematic investigation of polarized infrared imaging for a designed target obscured by scattering media using an anisotropic tellurium photodetector. Broadband sensitive photoresponse is realized at room temperature, with excellent stability without degradation under ambient atmospheric conditions. Significantly, a large anisotropic ratio of tellurium ensures polarized imaging in a scattering environment, with the degree of linear polarization over 0.8, opening up possibilities for developing next-generation polarized mid-infrared imaging technology.

In this paper, we theoretically design a dual-band graphene-based terahertz (THz) absorber combining the magnetic resonance with a THz cold mirror without any metallic loss. The absorption spectrum of the all-dielectric THz absorber can be actively manipulated after fabrication due to the tunable conductivity of graphene. After delicate optimization, two ultra-narrow absorption peaks are achieved with respective full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 0.0272 THz and 0.0424 THz. Also, we investigate the effect of geometric parameters on the absorption performance. Coupled mode theory (CMT) is conducted on the dual-band spectrum as an analytic method to confirm the validity of numerical results. Furthermore, physical mechanism is deeply revealed with magnetic and electric field distributions, which demonstrate a totally different principle with traditional plasmonic absorber. Our research provides a significant design guide for developing tunable multi-resonant THz devices based on all-dielectric configuration.

In this paper, by exploiting surrounding fractal UC‐EBG ground plane, a 2 × 2 microstrip array capable of X‐band operation is studied. Result of comparison shows that this microstrip array proposed has much lower RCS than that of 2 × 2 array with the standard ground at frequencies outside operating band within 2–18 GHz while its gain is improved in the operating band. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 1418–1422, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22440

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The intensity-amplitude correlation functions for a driven cavity QED system with two non-identical atoms are investigated in this paper. With the support of conditional homodyne detection, one can detect the time-dependent intensity-amplitude correlation functions experimentally. We find time-asymmetry in this correlation when the driving field is tuned to be resonant with the two-photon excitation state, which brings non-Gaussian fluctuations. The physical origin of these phenomena is the distinction of the third-order moment based on complete-collapse and partial-collapse, which corresponds to the measuring sequence of the intensity and amplitude. Finally, we also examined the nonclassical features of the system, which always exhibits photon bunching. The squeezing occurs in the region of weak driving and disappears with the increase of driving strength. Hence, a new classical inequality based on the technique of homodyne cross-correlation measurement is introduced to determine the nonclassicality of the non-Gaussian system in the region of unsqueezing.

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We propose a method to study the quantum nonlinearity and observe the multiphoton transitions in a multiatom CQED system. We show that by inducing simultaneously destructive quantum interference for the single-photon and two-photon excitations in the CQED system, it is possible to observe the direct three-photon excitation of the higherorder ladder states of the CQED system. We report an experiment with cold Rb atoms confined in an optical cavity and demonstrate such interference control of the multiphoton excitations of the CQED system. The observed nonlinear excitation of the CQED ladder states agrees with a theoretical analysis based on a fully quantized treatment of the CQED system, but disagrees with the semiclassical analysis of the CQED system. Thus it represents the first direct observation of the quantum nature of the multiatom CQED system and opens new ways to explore quantum nonlinearity and its applications in quantum optical systems in which multiple absorbers/emitters are coupled with photons in confined cavity structures.