Robust topological BIC nanocavities for upconversion directional emission
Abstract
Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) provide a revolutionary paradigm for boosting light-matter interactions in integrated nanocavity systems. Nevertheless, precise manipulation of open cavity-emitter architectures still faces critical challenges, especially in realizing deterministic directional radiation and suppressing the perturbation of intrinsic cavity modes induced by emitters as local impurities. Conventional investigations on cavity-emitter coupling are predominantly based on ensemble measurements, which inevitably mask the intrinsic physics underlying individual light-matter interactions. Here, we propose a robust strategy to control the upconversion and emission of a single-particle emitter using a topological plasmonic cavity with broken {\sigma}h mirror symmetry. This structured design enables the transition from symmetry-protected BICs to a multi-BIC regime with finite but ultrahigh confinement, where nontrivial phase evolution and hybridization of transverse electric and magnetic modes open a well-defined far-field radiation channel for directional emission. Leveraging this scheme, we experimentally demonstrate dramatically enhanced radiation intensity from a single point-like emitter, together with uniform and deterministic directional emission, while achieving excellent structural robustness against local perturbations. This work establishes a general framework for engineering coherent directional light emission at the nanoscale, which lays a solid foundation for high-performance chip-scale integrated nanophotonic applications.
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@article{arxiv.2603.25050,
title = {Robust topological BIC nanocavities for upconversion directional emission},
author = {Yongqi Chen and Ming Zhu and Qingfeng Bian and Xiumei Yin and Wenxin Wang and Bin Dong and Yurui Fang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.25050},
year = {2026}
}
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39 pages including supporting information. 5 figures for main text and 14 figures for SI