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 …

Resonant leaky modes in all-dielectric metasystems: Fundamentals and applications

L Huang, L Xu, DA Powell, WJ Padilla… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
All-dielectric metamaterials and metasurfaces have been demonstrated as ideal platforms to
manipulate electromagnetic waves and enhance light–matter interaction. Analogous to …

Realizing Ultrahigh‐Q Resonances Through Harnessing Symmetry‐Protected Bound States in the Continuum

L Huang, S Li, C Zhou, H Zhong, S You… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Harnessing the power of symmetry‐protected bound states in the continuum (SP BICs) has
become a focal point in scientific exploration, promising many interesting applications in …

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 …

Chiral bound states in the continuum in plasmonic metasurfaces

Y Tang, Y Liang, J Yao, MK Chen, S Lin… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) offer novel mechanisms to boost the quality factor (Q‐
factor) of resonances. Unfortunately, current studies on chiral BICs metasurfaces suffer from …

Revisiting the design strategies for metasurfaces: fundamental physics, optimization, and beyond

S So, J Mun, J Park, J Rho - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last two decades, the capabilities of metasurfaces in light modulation with
subwavelength thickness have been proven, and metasurfaces are expected to miniaturize …

Ultrahigh-Q guided mode resonances in an All-dielectric metasurface

L Huang, R **, C Zhou, G Li, L Xu, A Overvig… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High quality (Q) factor optical resonators are indispensable for many photonic devices.
While very large Q-factors can be obtained theoretically in guided-mode settings, free-space …

Bound states in the continuum in resonant nanostructures: an overview of engineered materials for tailored applications

S Joseph, S Pandey, S Sarkar, J Joseph - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
From theoretical model to experimental realization, the bound state in the continuum (BIC) is
an emerging area of research interest in the last decade. In the initial years, well-established …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

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 …