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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Bound states in the continuum in resonant nanostructures: an overview of engineered materials for tailored applications

S Joseph, S Pandey, S Sarkar, J Joseph - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
From theoretical model to experimental realization, the bound state in the continuum (BIC) is
an emerging area of research interest in the last decade. In the initial years, well-established …

Ultrafast control of vortex microlasers

C Huang, C Zhang, S Xiao, Y Wang, Y Fan, Y Liu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The development of classical and quantum information–processing technology calls for on-
chip integrated sources of structured light. Although integrated vortex microlasers have been …

High-harmonic generation from resonant dielectric metasurfaces empowered by bound states in the continuum

G Zograf, K Koshelev, A Zalogina, V Korolev… - Acs …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Optical bound states in the continuum (BICs) underpin the existence of strongly localized
waves embedded into the radiation spectrum. Here we bring the concept of BICs to the field …

Wireless power transfer based on novel physical concepts

M Song, P Jayathurathnage, E Zanganeh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Wireless power transfer—the transmission of electromagnetic energy without physical
connectors such as wires or waveguides—typically exploits electromagnetic field control …

Topological metamaterials

X Ni, S Yves, A Krasnok, A Alu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The topological properties of an object, associated with an integer called the topological
invariant, are global features that cannot change continuously but only through abrupt …

[HTML][HTML] Merging bound states in the continuum by harnessing higher-order topological charges

M Kang, L Mao, S Zhang, M Xiao, H Xu… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) can confine light with a theoretically infinite Q factor.
However, in practical on-chip resonators, scattering loss caused by inevitable fabrication …

Topologically enabled ultrahigh-Q guided resonances robust to out-of-plane scattering

J Jin, X Yin, L Ni, M Soljačić, B Zhen, C Peng - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Because of their ability to confine light, optical resonators,–are of great importance to
science and technology, but their performance is often limited by out-of-plane-scattering …