Exceptional points and non-Hermitian photonics at the nanoscale

A Li, H Wei, M Cotrufo, W Chen, S Mann, X Ni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Exceptional points (EPs) arising in non-Hermitian systems have led to a variety of intriguing
wave phenomena, and have been attracting increased interest in various physical platforms …

Metasurface micro/nano-optical sensors: principles and applications

J Qin, S Jiang, Z Wang, X Cheng, B Li, Y Shi, DP Tsai… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metasurfaces are 2D artificial materials consisting of arrays of metamolecules, which are
exquisitely designed to manipulate light in terms of amplitude, phase, and polarization state …

Coherent perfect absorption at an exceptional point

C Wang, WR Sweeney, AD Stone, L Yang - Science, 2021 - science.org
Recently, exceptional points, a degeneracy of open wave systems, have been observed in
photonics, acoustics, and electronics. They have mainly been realized as a degeneracy of …

Plasmonic topological metasurface by encircling an exceptional point

Q Song, M Odeh, J Zúñiga-Pérez, B Kanté, P Genevet - Science, 2021 - science.org
Resonant scattering, guided mode propagation phase, and/or orientation-dependent phase
retardations are the three main mechanisms used to date to conceive optical metasurfaces …

Enantioselective sensing by collective circular dichroism

RM Kim, JH Huh, SJ Yoo, TG Kim, C Kim, H Kim… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Quantitative determination and in situ monitoring of molecular chirality at extremely low
concentrations is still challenging with simple optics because of the molecular-scale …

Light–matter interactions in hybrid material metasurfaces

J Guan, JE Park, S Deng, MJH Tan, J Hu… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This Review focuses on the integration of plasmonic and dielectric metasurfaces with
emissive or stimuli-responsive materials for manipulating light–matter interactions at the …

Whispering-gallery-mode sensors for biological and physical sensing

D Yu, M Humar, K Meserve, RC Bailey… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The term whispering gallery mode (WGM) was first introduced to describe the curvilinear
propagation of sound waves under a cathedral dome. The physical concept has now been …

Quo vadis, metasurfaces?

CW Qiu, T Zhang, G Hu, Y Kivshar - Nano letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The full manipulation of intrinsic properties of electromagnetic waves has become the
central target in various modern optical technologies. Optical metasurfaces have been …

Review of exceptional point-based sensors

J Wiersig - Photonics research, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Exceptional points are spectral singularities in open quantum and wave systems that exhibit
a strong spectral response to perturbations. This feature can be exploited for a new …

Exceptional-point-based accelerometers with enhanced signal-to-noise ratio

R Kononchuk, J Cai, F Ellis, R Thevamaran, T Kottos - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Exceptional points (EP) are non-Hermitian degeneracies where eigenvalues and their
corresponding eigenvectors coalesce,,–. Recently, EPs have attracted attention as a means …