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 …

Photonics of time-varying media

E Galiffi, R Tirole, S Yin, H Li, S Vezzoli… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, due
to the synergy between the discovery of highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near …

Broadband mid-infrared non-reciprocal absorption using magnetized gradient epsilon-near-zero thin films

M Liu, S **a, W Wan, J Qin, H Li, C Zhao, L Bi… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
The study of magneto-optical absorption has stimulated diverse energy-technology-related
explorations, showing potential in breaking the current theoretical efficiency limits of energy …

Nanophotonics for light detection and ranging technology

I Kim, RJ Martins, J Jang, T Badloe, S Khadir… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology, a laser-based imaging technique for
accurate distance measurement, is considered one of the most crucial sensor technologies …

Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies

R Tirole, S Vezzoli, E Galiffi, I Robertson, D Maurice… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Double-slit experiments—where a wave is transmitted through a thin double aperture in
space—have confirmed the wave–particle duality of quantum objects, such as single …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces

SA Schulz, R Oulton, M Kenney, A Alù, I Staude… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

Roadmap on structured waves

KY Bliokh, E Karimi, MJ Padgett, MA Alonso… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum,
where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane …

Dirac-like cone-based electromagnetic zero-index metamaterials

Y Li, CT Chan, E Mazur - Light: Science & Applications, 2021 - nature.com
Metamaterials with a Dirac-like cone dispersion at the center of the Brillouin zone behave
like an isotropic and impedance-matched zero refractive index material at the Dirac-point …

All-optical switching of an epsilon-near-zero plasmon resonance in indium tin oxide

J Bohn, TS Luk, C Tollerton, SW Hutchings… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical devices and their implementation into modern nanophotonic architectures
are constrained by their usually moderate nonlinear response. Recently, epsilon-near-zero …

Integrated terahertz generator-manipulators using epsilon-near-zero-hybrid nonlinear metasurfaces

Y Lu, X Feng, Q Wang, X Zhang, M Fang, WEI Sha… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
In terahertz (THz) technologies, generation and manipulation of THz waves are two key
processes usually implemented by different device modules. Integrating THz generation and …