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ArticleNature communications2026

Phase-matching-free sensing with undetected light using a nonlinear thin-film metasurface.

Toby Severs Millard, Nathan R Gemmell, Ross C Schofield, Mohsen Rahmani, Alex S Clark, Chris C Phillips, Rupert F Oulton

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Toby Severs MillardBlackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK. toby.seversmillard@unimelb.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6270-065X
Nathan R GemmellBlackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK. n.gemmell20@imperial.ac.uk.
Ross C SchofieldBlackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Mohsen RahmaniAdvanced Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9268-4793
Alex S ClarkBlackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9161-3667
Chris C PhillipsBlackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6425-8236
Rupert F OultonBlackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK. r.oulton@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5070-3623

Funding

Royal Society RF/ERE/210098Royal Society RF/ERE/221060Royal Society URF/R/221019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article, we report classical sensing with undetected light at a wavelength of 1500 nm, detected on a silicon camera at 580 nm, using four-wave mixing from a plasmonic metasurface. The bidirectional nonlinear scattering due to inherent reflections from such thin nonlinear materials modifies their operation within a nonlinear interferometer. The theoretical model for visibility accounting for bidirectionality as well as pulsed illumination accurately predicts visibility in the system as a function of transmission in the near-infrared seed (idler) arm. Spectrally resolving the visible signal emission evaluates the total dispersion within the interferometer, highlighting the prospect of ultrafast sensing with undetected photons.

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PMID42773113
PMCPMC13598124

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