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 …

Photonic Bound States in the Continuum in Nanostructures

H Zhong, T He, Y Meng, Q Xiao - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bound states in the continuum (BIC) have garnered considerable attention recently for their
unique capacity to confine electromagnetic waves within an open or non-Hermitian system …

Ultrahigh-Q lead halide perovskite microlasers

H Tang, Y Wang, Y Chen, K Wang, X He, C Huang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Lead halide perovskites have been promising platforms for micro-and nanolasers. However,
the fragile nature of perovskites poses an extreme challenge to engineering a cavity …

Enhanced sum-frequency generation from etchless lithium niobate empowered by dual quasi-bound states in the continuum

S Feng, T Liu, W Chen, F Wu, S Xiao - Science China Physics, Mechanics …, 2023 - Springer
The miniaturization of nonlinear light sources is central to the integrated photonic platform,
driving a quest for high-efficiency frequency generation and mixing at the nanoscale. In this …

Fast lithium niobate photodetector

C Jin, C Wang, L Qu, D Zhang, Q Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite various successes in lithium niobate (LN) integrated photonic devices (eg, light
sources, waveguides, modulators, etc.), LN photodetectors (PD) that converts light into …

Bright second harmonic emission from photonic crystal vertical cavity

L Qu, Z Gu, C Li, Y Qin, Y Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents photonic vertical cavities consisting of nonlinear materials embedded in
photonic crystals (PhCs) for resonantly enhancing second harmonic generation (SHG) …

Broadband asymmetric light transport in compact lithium niobate waveguides

S Wu, W Song, J Sun, Z Lin, H Xin… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Asymmetric on‐chip light transport is important but always challenging for photonic
integrations. Although it has been recently implemented by adiabatically encircling the …

Tunable sum-frequency generation in modal phase-matched thin film lithium niobate rib waveguides

H Du, X Zhang, L Wang, Y Jia, F Chen - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we report a highly efficient and tunable on-chip sum-frequency generation
(SFG) on a thin-film lithium niobate platform via modal phase matching (e+ e→ e). It provides …

Integrated photonics on the dielectrically loaded lithium niobate on insulator platform

X Han, M Yuan, H Xiao, G Ren, TG Nguyen, A Boes… - JOSA B, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Thin-film lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) is emerging as one of the promising platforms
for integrated photonics due to the excellent material properties of lithium niobate, which …

Observation of acoustic Friedrich-Wintgen bound state in the continuum with bridging near-field coupling

S Liu, S Huang, Z Zhou, P Qian, B Jia, H Ding… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted increasing interest in recent years
owing to their intriguing physical characteristics such as the infinitely high quality factor (Q …