From whispering gallery mode resonators to biochemical sensors

M Loyez, M Adolphson, J Liao, L Yang - ACS sensors, 2023 - ACS Publications
Optical biosensors are frontrunners for the rapid and real-time detection of analytes,
particularly for low concentrations. Among them, whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators …

Thirty years in silicon photonics: a personal view

L Pavesi - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Silicon Photonics, the technology where optical devices are fabricated by the mainstream
microelectronic processing technology, was proposed almost 30 years ago. I joined this …

On-Chip Fabrication-Tolerant Exceptional Points Based on Dual-Scatterer Engineering

J Li, W Li, Y Feng, J Wang, Y Yao, Y Sun, Y Zou… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
The intriguing and anomalous optical characteristics of exceptional points (EPs) in optical
resonators have attracted significant attention. While EP-related phenomena have been …

Coherent resonant transmission

HS Xu, L Jin - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
The reflectionless coherent light transport in the coupled resonator array is investigated in
the presence of intra-resonator intermodal coupling between the clockwise and …

Multiple Fano resonance refractive index sensor based on a plasmonic metal-insulator-metal based Taiji resonator

H Fan, H Fan, H Fan - JOSA B, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We propose and numerically analyze a multiple Fano resonance device with high quality (Q)
factor and high modulation depth based on a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide …

[HTML][HTML] The infinity-loop microresonator: A new integrated photonic structure working on an exceptional surface

R Franchi, S Biasi, D Piciocchi, L Pavesi - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Exceptional points, where eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce, impact the behavior of
different photonics components that show, eg, enhanced sensing, coherent perfect …

Nonlinearity-induced reciprocity breaking in a single nonmagnetic taiji resonator

A Muñoz de las Heras, R Franchi, S Biasi… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
We report on the demonstration of an effective, nonlinearity-induced nonreciprocal behavior
in a single nonmagnetic multi-mode Taiji resonator. Nonreciprocity is achieved by a …

Interferometric method to estimate the eigenvalues of a non-Hermitian two-level optical system

S Biasi, R Franchi, F Mione, L Pavesi - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Non-Hermitian physics has found a fertile ground in optics. Recently, the study of mode
coalescence, ie, exceptional points, has led to the discovery of intriguing and …

Controlled unidirectional reflection in cold atoms via the spatial Kramers-Kronig relation

Y Zhang, JH Wu, M Artoni, GC La Rocca - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
It is known that the Kramers-Kronig (KK) relation between real and imaginary parts of the
optical susceptibility in the frequency domain can also be realized in the space domain, as …

On the spectral response of a taiji-CROW device

B Aslan, R Franchi, S Biasi, S Ali, L Pavesi - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Physical systems with topological properties are robust against disorder. However,
implementing them in integrated photonic devices is challenging because of the various …