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 …

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 …

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 …

Diffractive nonlocal metasurfaces

A Overvig, A Alù - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces are ushering in an era of multifunctional control over optical wavefronts
realized with ultrathin planarized devices. Recent advances have been enabling …

Photonic bound states in the continuum: from basics to applications

SI Azzam, AV Kildishev - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of bound states in the continuum (BICs) to photonics has revolutionized the
way cavity design and light–matter interactions are thought about in general. BICs can have …

Symmetry-protected bound states in the continuum supported by all-dielectric metasurfaces

S Li, C Zhou, T Liu, S **ao - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Symmetry-protected bound states in the continuum (BICs) are nonradiative states with
infinite lifetime and perfect confinement of energy even though lying in the radiation …

Generating optical vortex beams by momentum-space polarization vortices centred at bound states in the continuum

B Wang, W Liu, M Zhao, J Wang, Y Zhang, A Chen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Optical vortices, beams with spiral wavefronts and screw phase dislocations, have been
attracting increasing interest in various fields. Here, we theoretically propose and …

Chiral quasi-bound states in the continuum

A Overvig, N Yu, A Alù - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Quasi-bound states in the continuum (QBICs) are Fano resonant states with long optical
lifetimes controlled by symmetry-breaking perturbations. While conventional Fano …

Enhanced light–matter interaction in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

L Huang, A Krasnok, A Alú, Y Yu… - Reports on Progress …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials, such as
MoS 2, WS 2, MoSe 2, and WSe 2, have received extensive attention in the past decade due …