As a basic building block, optical resonant cavities (ORCs) are widely used in light
manipulation. They can confine electromagnetic waves and improve the interaction between …

Plasmonic metasurfaces provide an effective way to increase the efficiency of several
nonlinear processes while maintaining nanoscale dimensions. In this work, nonlinear …

Edge states in heterostructures composed of two kinds of all-dielectric one-dimensional
photonic crystals (1DPCs) can be utilized for narrowband filtering. However, the filtering …

We theoretically study dispersionless gaps and cavity modes in one-dimensional photonic
crystals composed of hyperbolic metamaterials and dielectric. Bragg gaps in conventional …

Metasurfaces comprising arrays of film-coupled, nanopatch antennas are a promising
platform for low-energy, all-optical switches. The large field enhancements that can be …

We analytically and numerically investigate surface second-harmonic generation (SHG)
from a stack of dielectric layers. We develop a theoretical formalism based on the transfer …

We study the use of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities to generate radiation
spanning the infrared to terahertz regions of the spectrum by exploiting transitions between …

Incorporating optical surface waves in nonlinear processes unlocks unique and sensitive
nonlinear interactions wherein highly confined surface states can be accessed and …

The resonance associated with plasmonic nanostructures strongly enhances local optical
fields, and can thus dramatically enhance the nonlinear response of the composite structure …

We demonstrate that the nonlocal dielectric response of metal, comparing with the traditional
local model, will significantly boost the third-order harmonic generation (THG) from gold …