Fri, 9 Jan 2026 (showing 20 of 20 entries ) [52] arXiv:2601.05156 [pdf, html, other] Optical Entropy and Generalized Thermodynamics of Solitonic Event Horizons Hasan Oguz Comments: 10 pages 2 figures Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS) [53] arXiv:2601.05094 [pdf, html, other] How Dark is Dark? A Reflectance and Scattering Analysis of Black Materials Jiri Filip, Radomir Vavra Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures Subjects: Optics (physics.optics) [54] arXiv:2601.04993 [pdf, html, other] Modulating near-field radiative energy and momentum transfer via rotating Weyl semimetals Huimin Zhu, Gaomin Tang, Lei Zhang, Jun Chen Comments: 6+4 pages,4 figures Subjects: Optics (physics.optics) [55] arXiv:2601.04964 [pdf, html, other] Nonlinear virtual lens for programmable and multispectral infrared upconversion imaging Ze Zheng, Olga Sergaeva, Davide Rocco, Yuchen Zhang, Guoquan Zhang, Mohsen Rahmani, Costantino De Angelis, Lei Xu Comments: 19 pages, 7 figures Subjects: Optics (physics.optics) [56] arXiv:2601.04947 [pdf, other] Tunable Quantum Interference in Free Space with a Liquid-Crystal Metagrating Maria Gorizia Ammendola, Italo Machuca Flores, Sneha Dey, Francesco Di Colandrea, Andrei Nomerotski, Bereneice Sephton, Carlo Schiano, Corrado de Lisio, Vincenzo D'Ambrosio, Lorenzo Marrucci, Patrick Cameron, Filippo Cardano Subjects: Optics (physics.optics) [57] arXiv:2601.04933 [pdf, other] Long-lived state of a helium-like magnesium donor in silicon R.Kh. Zhukavin, D.A. Postnov, P.A. Bushuikin, K.E. Kudryavtsev, K.A. Kovalevsky, V.V. Tsyplenkov, N.A. Bekin, A.N. Lodygin, L.M. Portsel, V.B. Shuman, Yu.A. Astrov, N.V. Abrosimov, V.N. Shastin Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Quantum Physics (quant-ph) [58] arXiv:2601.04928 [pdf, other] Widefield two-photon random illumination microscopy (2P-RIM) Assia Benachir, Xiangyi Li, Eric M. Fantuzzi, Guillaume Giroussens, Thomas Mangeat, Federico Vernuccio, Hervé Rigneault, Anne Sentenac, Sandro Heuke Subjects: Optics (physics.optics) [59] arXiv:2601.04825 [pdf, html, other] Illumination Angular Spectrum Encoding for Controlling the Functionality of Diffractive Networks Matan Kleiner, Lior Michaeli, Tomer Michaeli Comments: Project's code this https URL Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG) [60] arXiv:2601.04561 [pdf, other] Ultra-high performance microwave spectral filters using optical microcombs David J. Moss Comments: 31 pages, 7 figures, 190 references Journal-ref: Laser and Photonics Reviews Volume 19 (2025) Subjects: Optics (physics.optics) [61] arXiv:2601.04472 [pdf, html, other] Silicon photonic optical-electrical-optical converters based on load-resistor and current-injection operation Masaya Arahata, Shota Kita, Akihiko Shinya, Hisashi Sumikura, Masaya Notomi Subjects: Optics (physics.optics) [62] arXiv:2601.04470 [pdf, other] Self-heterodyne spectroscopy via a non-uniformly spaced frequency comb Bofeng Zhang, Gang Zhao, Xiaobin Zhou, Xiaojuan Yan, Jiaqi Yang, Weiguang Ma, Suotang Jia Subjects: Optics (physics.optics) [63] arXiv:2601.04466 [pdf, html, other] Photonic Temporal Illusion Grigorii Ptitcyn, Diego M. Solís, M. S. Mirmoosa, Nader Engheta Comments: 18 pages, 5 figures Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) [64] arXiv:2601.04452 [pdf, html, other] Processing-Dependent Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer at Au/SiC Interfaces A. Márquez, R. Esquivel-Sirvent Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) [65] arXiv:2601.04391 [pdf, html, other] Modifications to Image Phase Alignment Super-sampling Produce up to 4.4 times Increased Image Resolution James N. Caron Comments: 12 pages, 10 figures. Original Work Subjects: Optics (physics.optics) [66] arXiv:2601.04370 [pdf, html, other] End-to-end differentiable design of geometric waveguide displays Xinge Yang, Zhaocheng Liu, Zhaoyu Nie, Qingyuan Fan, Zhimin Shi, Jim Bonar, Wolfgang Heidrich Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Graphics (cs.GR) [67] arXiv:2601.04354 [pdf, other] Ultra-sensitive graphene-based electro-optic sensors for optically-multiplexed neural recording Zabir Ahmed (1), Xiang Li (1), Kanika Sarna (1), Harshvardhan Gupta (1), Vishal Jain (1,2), Maysamreza Chamanzar (1,2,3) ((1) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. (2) Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, Pittsburgh, USA. (3) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.) Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Systems and Control (eess.SY); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) [68] arXiv:2601.05118 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, html, other] Scalable Generation of Macroscopic Fock States Exceeding 10,000 Photons Ming Li, Weizhou Cai, Ziyue Hua, Yifang Xu, Yilong Zhou, Zi-Jie Chen, Xu-Bo Zou, Guang-Can Guo, Luyan Sun, Chang-Ling Zou Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Optics (physics.optics) [69] arXiv:2601.04749 (cross-list from cond-mat.quant-gas) [pdf, html, other] Topological sensing of superfluid rotation using non-Hermitian optical dimers Aritra Ghosh, Nilamoni Daloi, M. Bhattacharya Subjects: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Optics (physics.optics); Quantum Physics (quant-ph) [70] arXiv:2601.04733 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, html, other] A scalable gallium-phosphide-on-diamond spin-photon interface Nicholas S. Yama, Chun-Chi Wu, Fariba Hatami, Kai-Mei C. Fu Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Optics (physics.optics) [71] arXiv:2601.04543 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, html, other] Increasing the secret key rates and point-to-multipoint extension for experimental coherent-one-way quantum key distribution protocol Venkat Abhignan, Mohit Mittal, Aditi Das, Megha Shrivastava Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Optics (physics.optics)