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 …

Dirac-like cone-based electromagnetic zero-index metamaterials

Y Li, CT Chan, E Mazur - Light: Science & Applications, 2021 - nature.com
Metamaterials with a Dirac-like cone dispersion at the center of the Brillouin zone behave
like an isotropic and impedance-matched zero refractive index material at the Dirac-point …

Recent advances and perspective of photonic bound states in the continuum

G Xu, H Xing, Z Xue, D Lu, J Fan, J Fan, PP Shum… - Ultrafast …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Recent advancements in photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) have opened up
exciting new possibilities for the design of optoelectronic devices with improved …

Topological metasurface: From passive toward active and beyond

JW You, Z Lan, Q Ma, Z Gao, Y Yang, F Gao… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Metasurfaces are subwavelength structured thin films consisting of arrays of units that allow
the control of polarization, phase, and amplitude of light over a subwavelength thickness …

Transparent conducting oxides: from all-dielectric plasmonics to a new paradigm in integrated photonics

W Jaffray, S Saha, VM Shalaev… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
During the past few years, the optics and photonics communities have renewed their
attention toward transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), which for over two decades have …

Subwavelength on‐chip light focusing with bigradient all‐dielectric metamaterials for dense photonic integration

Z Ren, B Dong, Q Qiao, X Liu, J Liu, G Zhou, C Lee - InfoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) provide a promising platform for miniaturized on‐chip
optical systems for communication, computation, and sensing applications. The dense …

Quasi-BIC laser enabled by high-contrast grating resonator for gas detection

H Zhang, T Wang, J Tian, J Sun, S Li, I De Leon… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
In this work, we propose and numerically investigate a two-dimensional microlaser based on
the concept of bound states in the continuum (BIC). The device consists of a thin gain layer …

Crosstalk prohibition at the deep-subwavelength scale by epsilon-near-zero claddings

W Ji, J Luo, H Chu, X Zhou, X Meng, R Peng… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
To prevent the crosstalk between adjacent waveguides in photonic integrated circuits, the
minimum thickness of the cladding layers is around half a wavelength, which imposes a …

Zero-index and hyperbolic metacavities: fundamentals and applications

Z Guo, H Jiang, H Chen - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
As a basic building block, optical resonant cavities (ORCs) are widely used in light
manipulation. They can confine electromagnetic waves and improve the interaction between …