Optical Bistability in Nanosilicon with Record Low Q-Factor

K Nishida, PH Tseng, YC Chen, PH Wu, CY Yang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
We demonstrated optical bistability in an amorphous silicon Mie resonator with a size of∼
100 nm and Q-factor as low as∼ 4 by utilizing photothermal and thermo-optical effects. We …

Nonlinear optical heating of all-dielectric super-cavity: efficient light-to-heat conversion through giant thermorefractive bistability

D Ryabov, O Pashina, G Zograf, S Makarov… - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Optical heating of resonant nanostructures is one of the key issues in modern
nanophotonics, being either harmful or desirable effect depending on the applications …

All-optical scattering control in an all-dielectric quasi-perfect absorbing Huygens' metasurface

K Nishida, K Sasai, R Xu, TH Yen, YL Tang… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
In this paper, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrated photothermal nonlinearities
of both forward and backward scattering intensities from quasi-perfect absorbing silicon …

Thermo‐Optical Bistability Enabled by Bound States in The Continuum in Silicon Metasurfaces

A Barulin, O Pashina, D Riabov… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The control of light through all‐optical means is a fundamental challenge in nanophotonics
and a key effect in optical switching and logic. The optical bistability effect enables this …

Nanophotonic inspection of deep-subwavelength integrated optoelectronic chips

Y Che, T Zhang, X Liu, D Hu, S Song, Y Cai, Y Cao… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
Artificial nanostructures with ultrafine and deep-subwavelength features have emerged as a
paradigm-shifting platform to advanced light-field management, becoming key building …

Transient Super‐/Sub‐Linear Nonlinearities in Silicon Nanostructures

GJ Huang, HY Cheng, YL Tang, I Hotta… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nonlinear silicon nano‐photonics has recently attracted significant attention due to the
plethora of electric and magnetic Mie resonances that offer substantial enhancement of …

Multipole engineering by displacement resonance: a new degree of freedom of Mie resonance

YL Tang, TH Yen, K Nishida, CH Li, YC Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The canonical studies on Mie scattering unravel strong electric/magnetic optical responses
in nanostructures, laying foundation for emerging meta-photonic applications …

All-optical control of semiconductor nanostructure scattering/absorption via the photothermal effect

K Nishida, HY Cheng, M Petrov, KP Chen… - Journal of the Optical …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The recent evolution of semiconductor nanodevices, including nanoresonators and
metasurfaces, has provided active tunability of optical functionality by efficiently utilizing …

Photo-thermo-optical modulation of Raman scattering from Mie-resonant silicon nanostructures

MP Vikram, K Nishida, CH Li, D Riabov, O Pashina… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Raman scattering is sensitive to local temperature and thus offers a convenient tool for non-
contact and non-destructive optical thermometry at the nanoscale. In turn, all-dielectric …

Thermo-optic hysteresis induced by a high-quality defect mode in a two-dimensional photonic crystal

GV Shadrina, EN Bulgakov, DN Maksimov… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We consider thermo-optic bistability induced by a high-quality defect mode in the square
array of dielectric rods. It is demonstrated that the scattering problem with an account of the …