Recent progress on optical micro/nanomanipulations: structured forces, structured particles, and synergetic applications

LM Zhou, Y Shi, X Zhu, G Hu, G Cao, J Hu, CW Qiu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Optical manipulation has achieved great success in the fields of biology, micro/nano robotics
and physical sciences in the past few decades. To date, the optical manipulation is still …

Machine learning aided design and optimization of thermal metamaterials

C Zhu, EA Bamidele, X Shen, G Zhu, B Li - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced material research that were previously intractable,
for example, the machine learning (ML) has been able to predict some unprecedented …

Advances in light transverse momenta and optical lateral forces

Y Shi, X Xu, M Nieto-Vesperinas, Q Song… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the cornerstones in modern optics
and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits, particle manipulation, metrology …

Arbitrarily polarized bound states in the continuum with twisted photonic crystal slabs

H Qin, Z Su, M Liu, Y Zeng, MC Tang, M Li… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Arbitrary polarized vortex beam induced by polarization singularity offers a new platform for
both classical optics and quantum entanglement applications. Bound states in the …

Creating pairs of exceptional points for arbitrary polarization control: asymmetric vectorial wavefront modulation

Z Yang, PS Huang, YT Lin, H Qin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Exceptional points (EPs) can achieve intriguing asymmetric control in non-Hermitian
systems due to the degeneracy of eigenstates. Here, we present a general method that …

Exploiting extraordinary topological optical forces at bound states in the continuum

H Qin, Y Shi, Z Su, G Wei, Z Wang, X Cheng, AQ Liu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Polarization singularities and topological vortices in photonic crystal slabs centered at
bound states in the continuum (BICs) can be attributed to zero amplitude of polarization …

[HTML][HTML] Scattering exceptional point in the visible

T He, Z Zhang, J Zhu, Y Shi, Z Li, H Wei, Z Wei… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Exceptional point (EP) is a special degeneracy of non-Hermitian systems. One-dimensional
transmission systems operating at EPs are widely studied and applied to chiral conversion …

On-chip optical trapping with high NA metasurfaces

J Xiao, T Plaskocinski, M Biabanifard… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Optical trapping of small particles typically requires the use of high NA microscope
objectives. Photonic metasurfaces are an attractive alternative to create strongly focused …

High-sensitivity optical sensors empowered by quasi-bound states in the continuum in a hybrid metal–dielectric metasurface

M Luo, Y Zhou, X Zhao, Z Guo, Y Li, Q Wang, J Liu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Enhancing light–matter interaction is a key requisite in the realm of optical sensors. Bound
states in the continuum (BICs), possessing high quality factors (Q factors), have shown great …

Diatomic metasurface for efficient six‐channel modulation of Jones matrix

C Feng, T He, Y Shi, Q Song, J Zhu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multi‐channel modulation of Jones matrix facilitates encoding a variety of different functions
in metasurfaces. However, multiple channels are usually accompanied by a high system …