Bound states in the continuum

CW Hsu, B Zhen, AD Stone, JD Joannopoulos… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are waves that remain localized even though they
coexist with a continuous spectrum of radiating waves that can carry energy away. Their very …

All-dielectric metamaterials

S Jahani, Z Jacob - Nature nanotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
The ideal material for nanophotonic applications will have a large refractive index at optical
frequencies, respond to both the electric and magnetic fields of light, support large optical …

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 …

Ultrafast control of vortex microlasers

C Huang, C Zhang, S **ao, Y Wang, Y Fan, Y Liu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The development of classical and quantum information–processing technology calls for on-
chip integrated sources of structured light. Although integrated vortex microlasers have been …

High- Quasibound States in the Continuum for Nonlinear Metasurfaces

Z Liu, Y Xu, Y Lin, J **ang, T Feng, Q Cao, J Li, S Lan… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Sharp electromagnetic resonances play an essential role in physics in general and optics in
particular. The last decades have witnessed the successful developments of high-quality (Q) …

The Fano resonance in plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials

B Luk'Yanchuk, NI Zheludev, SA Maier, NJ Halas… - Nature materials, 2010 - nature.com
Since its discovery, the asymmetric Fano resonance has been a characteristic feature of
interacting quantum systems. The shape of this resonance is distinctively different from that …

Photonic crystals

JD Joannopoulos, PR Villeneuve, S Fan - Solid State Communications, 1997 - Elsevier
A new class of composite materials has emerged which provides a means to control and
manipulate light. These materials, known as photonic crystals, are periodic arrays of …

Topological photonic crystals: physics, designs, and applications

GJ Tang, XT He, FL Shi, JW Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research in topological photonics has not only proposed and realized novel
topological phenomena such as one‐way broadband propagation and robust transport of …

Flat optics for image differentiation

Y Zhou, H Zheng, II Kravchenko, J Valentine - Nature Photonics, 2020 - nature.com
Image processing has become a critical technology in a variety of science and engineering
disciplines. Although most image processing is performed digitally, optical analog …

Lasing action from photonic bound states in continuum

A Kodigala, T Lepetit, Q Gu, B Bahari, Y Fainman… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
In 1929, only three years after the advent of quantum mechanics, von Neumann and Wigner
showed that Schrödinger's equation can have bound states above the continuum threshold …