Bound states in the continuum in photonic structures

KL Koshelev, ZF Sadrieva, AA Shcherbakov… - Phys.-Usp, 2023 - ufn.ru
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are a striking example of how a solution to a simple
problem of quantum mechanics, obtained about a century ago, can serve as an incentive to …

Photonic Bound States in the Continuum in Nanostructures

H Zhong, T He, Y Meng, Q Xiao - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bound states in the continuum (BIC) have garnered considerable attention recently for their
unique capacity to confine electromagnetic waves within an open or non-Hermitian system …

Bandwidth-tunable near-infrared perfect absorption of graphene in a compound grating waveguide structure supporting quasi-bound states in the continuum

F Wu, D Liu, S Xiao - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Recently, based on the selective excitation of the guided mode, researchers realized quasi-
bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) in all-dielectric compound grating waveguide …

Steerable merging bound states in the continuum on a quasi-flatband of photonic crystal slabs without breaking symmetry

X Qi, J Wu, F Wu, M Ren, Q Wei, Y Wang… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical resonators with high quality (Q) factors are paramount for the enhancement of light–
matter interactions in engineered photonic structures, but their performance always suffers …

Tailoring electromagnetic responses in a coupled-grating system with combined modulation of near-field and far-field couplings

F Wu, C Fan, K Zhu, J Wu, X Qi, Y Sun, S Xiao, H Jiang… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Herein, we establish a hybrid coupling model (HCM) containing both near-and far-field
couplings to describe the electromagnetic response of the coupled-grating system …

Super-bound states in the continuum through merging in grating

E Bulgakov, G Shadrina, A Sadreev, K Pichugin - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We consider bound states in the continuum (BICs) in grating composed of infinitely long
silicon rods of rectangular cross-section. We reveal merging off-Γ Friedrich-Wintgen BIC with …

Continuous spectral and coupling-strength encoding with dual-gradient metasurfaces

A Aigner, T Weber, A Wester, SA Maier, A Tittl - Nature Nanotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
To control and enhance light–matter interactions at the nanoscale, two parameters are
central: the spectral overlap between an optical cavity mode and the material's spectral …

Spectral phase singularity and topological behavior in perfect absorption

M Liu, W Chen, G Hu, S Fan, DN Christodoulides… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Perfect absorbers, which can achieve total absorption of all incoming energy, have been
extensively studied in the last decades for various important technologies in general wave …

Resonance-trapped bound states in the continuum in metallic THz metasurfaces

J Niu, Y Zhai, Q Han, J Liu, B Yang - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The realization of bound states in the continuum (BICs) in optical systems has been relying
mainly on symmetry breaking. In contrast, another mechanism, known as resonance-trapped …

Bound states in the continuum in periodic structures with structural disorder

EE Maslova, MV Rybin, AA Bogdanov, ZF Sadrieva - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
We study the effect of structural disorder on the transition from the bound states in the
continuum (BICs) to quasi-BICs by the example of the periodic photonic structure composed …