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In periodic structures such as photonic crystal (PhC) slabs, a bound state in the continuum (BIC) is always surrounded by resonant states with their $Q$-factor following $Q\sim 1/|{\bm \beta}-{\bm \beta}_*|^{2p}$, where ${\bm \beta}$ and…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-02 Nan Zhang , Ya Yan Lu

We introduce a new type of a bound state in the continuum (BIC) which appears in the photonic structure consisting of two coupled waveguides where one of them supports a discrete eigenmode spectrum embedded in the continuum of the other…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-13 Jiri Petracek , Vladimir Kuzmiak , Jiri Ctyroky , Ivan Richter

Polarization singularities including bound states in the continuum (BICs) and circularly polarized states have provided promising opportunities in the manipulation of light waves. Previous studies show that BICs in photonic crystal slabs…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-14 Qiao Jiang , Peng Hu , Jun Wang , Dezhuan Han , Jian Zi

Distant interactions at arbitrary locations and their dynamic control are fundamentally important for realizing large-scale photonic and quantum circuits. Conventional approaches suffer from short coupling distance, poor controllability,…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) provide a viable way of achieving high-Q resonances in both photonics and acoustics. In this work, we proposed a general method of constructing Friedrich-Wintgen (FW) BICs and accidental BICs in a…

Ordered lattices of emitters with subwavelength periodicities support unconventional forms of light-matter interactions arising from collective effects. Here, we propose the realization and control of subradiant optical states within the…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-28 Paloma A. Huidobro , Maria Blanco de Paz

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted much attention in recent years due to the infinite quality factor (Q-factor) resonance and extremely localized field. In this study, BICs have been demonstrated by dielectric metasurfaces…

Whispering gallery resonators offer a versatile platform for manipulating the photonic transmission. Here, we study such a system, including periodically distributed pointlike impurities along the resonator with ring geometry. Based on an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 M. A. Figueroa , Vladimir Juricic , P. A. Orellana

Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) are special localized and non-decaying states of a photonic system with a frequency embedded into the spectrum of scattered states. The simplest photonic structure displaying a single BIC is…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-05 Stefano Longhi

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted significant interest in recent years due to their unique optical properties, such as infinite quality factor and wave localization. In order to improve the optical performance of BICs…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-17 Fengyuan Zhang , Qiongqiong Chu , Qiang Wang , Shining Zhu , Hui Liu

The realization of lossless metasurfaces with true chirality crucially requires the fabrication of three-dimensional structures, constraining their feasibility for experiments and hampering practical implementations. Even though the…

We demonstrate a fully integrable and reconfigurable platform for controlling quantum emission by harnessing chiral exceptional bound states in the continuum (BICs) as a higher-order non-Hermitian singularity. Our architecture employs…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Jin Li , Kexun Wu , Qi Hao , Yan Chen , Jiawei Wang

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is an eigenmode with the corresponding eigenvalue embedded in the continuous spectrum. There is currently a significant research interest on BICs in the photonics community, because they can be used to…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-29 Xiuchen Yu , Ya Yan Lu

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) enable unique features in tailoring light-matter interaction on nanoscale. These radiationless localized states drive theoretically infinite quality factors and lifetimes for modern nanophotonics, making…

Optical bound-states in the continuum (BICs) have greatly enriched the field of nonlinear optics with novel ways to control and manipulate light-matter interaction at the nanoscale. This has been made possible by their unique physical…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-17 Ji Tong Wang , Nicolae C. Panoiu

In recent years, bound states in continuum (BICs) have gained significant value for practitioners in both theoretical and applied photonics. This paper focuses on devices that utilize non-homogeneous thin patterned laminae. The properties,…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-11 Ovidiu-Zeno Lipan , Aldo De Sabata

The phenomenon of bound state in the continuum (BIC) with infinite quality factor and lifetime has emerged in recent years in photonics as a new tool of manipulating light-matter interactions. However, most of the investigated structures…

We propose a unique framework to study the topological properties of an optical bound state in the continuum(BIC). We employ the interactions between proximity resonances undergoing avoided resonance crossing in a specialty optical…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-07 Harsh K. Gandhi , Arnab Laha , Somnath Ghosh

We report the experimental observation of an elastic bound mode in the continuum (BIC) in a compact region of an architected beam. We consider a long slender beam with rigid masses attached at periodic intervals, with a compact segment…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Adib Rahman , Raj Kumar Pal

In the rapidly evolving field of nanophotonics, achieving precise spectral and temporal light manipulation at the nanoscale remains a critical challenge. While photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) have emerged as a powerful means…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-25 Haiyang Hu , Wenzheng Lu , Rodrigo Berte , Stefan A Maier , Andreas Tittl