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Thermal radiation management is of critical importance in energy, sensing, and heat transfer. According to Planck's law, objects at room temperature predominantly emit thermal radiation within the mid- and far-infrared bands. Here, we demonstrated the upconversion of the mid- and far-infrared thermal radiation emitted by second-order nonlinear material to the easily-detectable visible band through a difference frequency process. This nonlinear broad-spectrum upconversion is facilitated by the random quasi-phase-matching technique in the nanoparticle system. Furthermore, we show the temperature measurement of thermal spots using such nonlinear thermal radiation. This scheme paves the way for applications in thermal management and sensing.
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Spatial light modulators enabling complex light field manipulation has opened up many opportunities in biomedical imaging, holographic display, and adaptive optics. However, traditional spatial light modulators do not allow multi-color operations simultaneously due to their physical constraints, while multi-color modulations are highly desirable in many applications. To overcome this limitation, we demonstrate a multi-color spatial complex light field modulation with a single binary hologram on digital micromirror devices (DMD). This method combines several neighboring micro-mirror pixels into a giant single superpixel, in which the light field's amplitude and phase can be individually determined by internal pixel combinations, and the dynamic range of phase modulation can exceed 2π for the single wavelength. As a result, this extra phase modulation range offers an additional degree of freedom for independent multi-wavelength light modulation. Based on this scheme, multi-color light modulations have been demonstrated in a 2D plane as well as in multiple 3D holographic planes. Moreover, a dual-colored Airy beam has been realized using the same technique. These results bring complex light modulation into a multi-color regime, paving the way for practical applications in information display, imaging, and optical trapping.
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Levitation by optical tweezers provides a unique non-invasive tool for investigating a microscale object without external perturbations. Here we experimentally levitate a micrometer-sized water droplet in the air using an optical tweezer. Meanwhile, vibrational modes of a levitated water droplet are excited by modulating the trapping laser. From their backscattered light, vibrational modes with mode numbers are observed in the spectra. Additionally, their corresponding free spectral ranges are analyzed and compared with theory and numerical simulations. This Letter, establishing a non-invasive and all-optical detection technique of optomechanical properties of levitated droplets, paves the way for their practical applications in aerosol and biomedical science.
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We study wave reciprocity in one-dimensional asymmetric systems constructed by multiple nonlinear δ-function scatters embedded within linear scatters. A general reciprocal condition is proposed, in terms of the rotation symmetry between forward and backward transfer matrices. We then derive various resonance conditions, under which all scatterers behave as merging into either a single nonlinear δ scatter, or a symmetric nonlinear barrier configuration. As such, the reciprocity appears periodically by changing widths of linear constant potentials between neighboring nonlinear δ scatters. Moreover, the wave reciprocity will not be violated if one replaces the linear constant potential between two δ-nonlinear scatters with any other kind of transparent scatterers.