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 …

Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics

M Kang, T Liu, CT Chan, M Xiao - 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 …

Observation of intrinsic chiral bound states in the continuum

Y Chen, H Deng, X Sha, W Chen, R Wang, YH Chen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photons with spin angular momentum possess intrinsic chirality, which underpins many
phenomena including nonlinear optics, quantum optics, topological photonics and …

Artificial intelligence in meta-optics

MK Chen, X Liu, Y Sun, DP Tsai - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent years have witnessed promising artificial intelligence (AI) applications in many
disciplines, including optics, engineering, medicine, economics, and education. In particular …

Brillouin zone folding driven bound states in the continuum

W Wang, YK Srivastava, TCW Tan, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Non-radiative bound states in the continuum (BICs) allow construction of resonant cavities
with confined electromagnetic energy and high-quality (Q) factors. However, the sharp …

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 …

Ultralow-threshold laser using super-bound states in the continuum

MS Hwang, HC Lee, KH Kim, KY Jeong… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Wavelength-scale lasers provide promising applications through low power consumption
requiring for optical cavities with increased quality factors. Cavity radiative losses can be …

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 asymmetric dielectric metasurfaces

C Zhou, L Huang, R Jin, L Xu, G Li… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is well established that for symmetry‐protected bound states in the continuum (BICs),
introducing the broken geometry symmetry in a dielectric metasurface transforms such a BIC …

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 …