Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics

M Kang, T Liu, CT Chan, M **ao - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted attention in photonics owing to their
interesting properties. For example, BICs can effectively confine light in a counterintuitive …

Planar chiral metasurfaces with maximal and tunable chiroptical response driven by bound states in the continuum

T Shi, ZL Deng, G Geng, X Zeng, Y Zeng, G Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical metasurfaces with high quality factors (Q-factors) of chiral resonances can boost
substantially light-matter interaction for various applications of chiral response in ultrathin …

Dynamics of topological polarization singularity in momentum space

Y Zeng, G Hu, K Liu, Z Tang, CW Qiu - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The polarization singularity in momentum space has recently been discovered as a new
class of topological signatures of Bloch modes in photonic crystal slabs concerning the far …

Optical polarization manipulations with anisotropic nanostructures

Z Li, W Liu, Y Zhang, H Cheng, S Zhang, S Chen - PhotoniX, 2024 - Springer
Over the past few decades, metasurfaces have revolutionized conventional bulky optics by
providing an effective approach to manipulate optical waves at the subwavelength scale …

Observation of perfectly-chiral exceptional point via bound state in the continuum

Z Zhou, B Jia, N Wang, X Wang, Y Li - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Chirality is one of the fundamentals of nature with strong ties to asymmetry. In wave physics,
it is conventionally characterized by asymmetric scattering of circularly polarized waves but …

Uncovering maximum chirality in resonant nanostructures

W Chen, Z Wang, MV Gorkunov, J Qin, R Wang… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chiral nanostructures allow engineering of chiroptical responses; however, their design
usually relies on empirical approaches and extensive numerical simulations. It remains …

Realizing tunable evolution of bound states in the continuum and circularly polarized points by symmetry breaking

X Wang, J Wang, X Zhao, L Shi, J Zi - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) and circularly polarized points (C points), being well-
known momentum-space polarization singularities in photonic crystal (PhC) slabs, have …

Controllable perfect chiral optical response in planar metasurfaces empowered by quasi-bound states in the continuum

Z Huang, J Wang, W Jia, S Zhang, C Zhou - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Chiral metasurfaces with strong chirality and high quality factors (Q-factors) have become
essential components for achieving strong light-matter interactions and have a wide range of …

Polarization singularities of photonic quasicrystals in momentum space

Z Che, Y Zhang, W Liu, M Zhao, J Wang, W Zhang… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We report the observation of polarization singularities in momentum space of 2D photonic
quasicrystal slabs. Supercell approximation and band-unfolding approach are applied to …

Steerable chiral optical responses unraveled in planar metasurfaces via bound states in the continuum

QK Liu, Y Li, Z Lu, Y Zhou, WM Liu, XQ Luo, XL Wang - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Chiral metasurfaces, with appealing properties for studying light-matter interactions at the
nanoscale, have emerged as a promising platform for the realization of chiral optical …