The light-matter interaction has been at the heart of major advances from the atomic scale
right to the microscopic scale over the past four decades. Confinement by light, embodied by …

In contrast to a conventional symmetric Lorentzian resonance, Fano resonance is
predominantly used to describe asymmetric-shaped resonances, which arise from the …

Light usually propagates inside transparent materials in well known ways. However, recent
research,,,, has examined the possibility of modifying the way the light travels by taking a …

The dynamic back-action caused by electromagnetic forces (radiation pressure) in optical,,,,,
and microwave cavities is of growing interest. Back-action cooling, for example, is being …

“Cavity-optomechanics” aims to study the quantum properties of mechanical systems. A
common strategy implemented in order to achieve this goal couples a high finesse photonic …

Glass microsphere resonators that support optical resonances known as whispering‐gallery
modes are unique tools for studying and exploiting optical effects under extremely well …

We investigate the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of high quality
factor photonic crystal nanobeam cavities in silicon. Using a five-hole tapered one …

The force exerted by photons is of fundamental importance in light–matter interactions. For
example, in free space, optical tweezers have been widely used to manipulate atoms and …

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is traditionally viewed as a process whose strength is
dictated by intrinsic material nonlinearities with little dependence on waveguide geometry …

Optical forces are widely used to manipulate microparticles such as living cells, DNA and
bacteria. The forces used in these'optical tweezers' originate from the strongly varying …