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 …

Aptamer–protein interactions: from regulation to biomolecular detection

C Ji, J Wei, L Zhang, X Hou, J Tan, Q Yuan… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Serving as the basis of cell life, interactions between nucleic acids and proteins play
essential roles in fundamental cellular processes. Aptamers are unique single-stranded …

DNA origami: scaffolds for creating higher order structures

F Hong, F Zhang, Y Liu, H Yan - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …

Novel nanostructures and materials for strong light–matter interactions

DG Baranov, M Wersall, J Cuadra, TJ Antosiewicz… - Acs …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Quantum mechanical interactions between electromagnetic radiation and matter underlie a
broad spectrum of optical phenomena. Strong light-matter interactions result in the well …

Interfacing single photons and single quantum dots with photonic nanostructures

P Lodahl, S Mahmoodian, S Stobbe - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Photonic nanostructures provide a means of tailoring the interaction between light and
matter and the past decade has witnessed tremendous experimental and theoretical …

Colloquium: Strongly interacting photons in one-dimensional continuum

D Roy, CM Wilson, O Firstenberg - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Photon-photon scattering in vacuum is extremely weak. However, strong effective
interactions between single photons can be realized by employing strong light-matter …

Imaging topological edge states in silicon photonics

M Hafezi, S Mittal, J Fan, A Migdall, JM Taylor - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Topological features—global properties not discernible locally—emerge in systems ranging
from liquid crystals to magnets to fractional quantum Hall systems. A deeper understanding …

An integrated diamond nanophotonics platform for quantum-optical networks

A Sipahigil, RE Evans, DD Sukachev, MJ Burek… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Efficient interfaces between photons and quantum emitters form the basis for quantum
networks and enable optical nonlinearities at the single-photon level. We demonstrate an …

Realizing strong light-matter interactions between single-nanoparticle plasmons and molecular excitons at ambient conditions

G Zengin, M Wersäll, S Nilsson, TJ Antosiewicz, M Käll… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Realizing strong light-matter interactions between individual two-level systems and
resonating cavities in atomic and solid state systems opens up possibilities to study optical …

[HTML][HTML] Strong coupling and induced transparency at room temperature with single quantum dots and gap plasmons

H Leng, B Szychowski, MC Daniel, M Pelton - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Coherent coupling between plasmons and transition dipole moments in emitters can lead to
two distinct spectral effects: vacuum Rabi splitting at strong coupling strengths, and induced …