Squeezing Millimeter Waves into Microns

Squeezing millimeter waves into microns.

Microstructured metallic devices will play a vital role in the continuing search to manipulate the passage of electromagnetic radiation relevant to optical, microwave, and communication technologies. Here, we investigate the electromagnetic response of a completely novel and ultrathin (<< wavelength) structure within which is buried a metal-clad waveguiding layer ("core") of subwavelength width...

Squeezing Millimeter Waves through a Single, Nanometer-wide, Centimeter-long Slit

We demonstrate broadband non-resonant squeezing of terahertz (THz) waves through an isolated 2-nm-wide, 2-cm-long slit (aspect ratio of 10(7)), representing a maximum intensity enhancement factor of one million. Unlike resonant nanogap structures, a single, effectively infinitely-long slit passes incident electromagnetic waves with no cutoff, enhances the electric field within the gap with a br...

Leveraging Millimeter Waves for Security

The fact that Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communication needs to be directional is usually perceived as a challenge; in this paper we argue that it enables efficient secret key sharing that are unconditionally secure from passive eavesdroppers, by building on packet erasures. We showcase the potential of our approach in two setups: beam sweeping to align receiver/transmitter pairs, and vehicle pla...

Quantization of Gravitational Waves and the Squeezing

The question whether gravitational waves are quantised or not can in principle be answered by the help of correlation measurements. If the gravitational waves are quantised and they are generated by the change of the background metrics then they can be in squeezed state. In a sqeezed state there is a correlation between the phase of the wave and the quantum fluctuations. It is recommended to an...

Bolometers for infrared and millimeter waves