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 …

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
<? pag\vskip-16pt?> Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the
cornerstones in modern optics and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits …

Topological optical differentiator

T Zhu, C Guo, J Huang, H Wang, M Orenstein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Optical computing holds significant promise of information processing with ultrahigh speed
and low power consumption. Recent developments in nanophotonic structures have …

Recent advances in the spin Hall effect of light

X Ling, X Zhou, K Huang, Y Liu, CW Qiu… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The spin Hall effect (SHE) of light, as an analogue of the SHE in electronic systems, is a
promising candidate for investigating the SHE in semiconductor spintronics/valleytronics …

Transverse and longitudinal angular momenta of light

KY Bliokh, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
We review basic physics and novel types of optical angular momentum. We start with a
theoretical overview of momentum and angular momentum properties of generic optical …

Reaching the highest efficiency of spin Hall effect of light in the near-infrared using all-dielectric metasurfaces

M Kim, D Lee, Y Yang, Y Kim, J Rho - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
The spin Hall effect of light refers to a spin-dependent transverse splitting of light at a planar
interface. Previous demonstrations to enhance the splitting have suffered from exceedingly …

Dielectric microcavities: Model systems for wave chaos and non-Hermitian physics

H Cao, J Wiersig - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
This is a review on theoretical and experimental studies on dielectric microcavities, which
play a significant role in fundamental and applied research. The basic concepts and theories …

Giant photonic spin Hall effect empowered by polarization-dependent quasibound states in the continuum in compound grating waveguide structures

F Wu, T Liu, Y Long, S Xiao, G Chen - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) plays an important role in both fundamental science
and precision metrology. In this paper, we theoretically propose a polarization-dependent …

Spin Hall effect of light via momentum-space topological vortices around bound states in the continuum

J Wang, L Shi, J Zi - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Optical bound states in the continuum (BICs) are exotic topological defects in photonic
crystal slabs, carrying polarization topological vortices in momentum space. The topological …

Extraordinary momentum and spin in evanescent waves

KY Bliokh, AY Bekshaev, F Nori - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Momentum and spin represent fundamental dynamic properties of quantum particles and
fields. In particular, propagating optical waves (photons) carry momentum and longitudinal …