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For a periodic structure sandwiched between two homogeneous media, a bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a guided Bloch mode with a frequency in the radiation continuum. Optical BICs have found many applications, mainly because they give…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-14 Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), with the ability of trapping and manipulating waves within the radiation continuum, have gained significant attention for their potential applications in optics and acoustics. However, challenges arise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Shunda Yin , Zhenyu Wang , Liping Ye , Hailong He , Manzhu Ke , Weiyin Deng , Jiuyang Lu , Zhengyou Liu

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) in planar photonic structures have attracted broad scientific interest owing to their exceptional capability to confine light. Topological robustness of certain BICs allows them to be moved in the…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-04 Huayu Bai , Andriy Shevchenko , Radoslaw Kolkowski

Recent advancements in photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) have opened up exciting new possibilities for the design of optoelectronic devices with improved performance. In this perspective article, we provide an overview of recent…

The partial or complete confinement of waves in an open system is omnipresent in nature and in wave-based materials and technology. Here, we theoretically analyze and experimentally observe the formation of a trapped mode with perfect mode…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Liyun Cao , Yifan Zhu , Yanlong Xu , Shi-Wang Fan , Zhichun Yang , Badreddine Assouar

The kagome lattice is renowned for its exotic electronic properties, such as flat bands, Dirac points, and Van Hove singularities. These features have provided a fertile ground for exploring exotic quantum phenomena. Here, we discover that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Shun-Peng Zhang , Ming-Jian Gao , Wei Jia , Jun-Hong An

One of the main applications of the bound state in the continuum (BIC) is the low-threshold lasing. Ideally, the infinite quality factor of the BIC results in the zero-threshold and zero-linewidth lasing. However, various effects disturb…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-22 Tetsuyuki Ochiai

In this paper, we present a Bound states in the continuum (BIC) metamaterial in heterogeneous structures based on the universal coupled mode theory. We find the more general physical parameters to represent BIC, which are the resonant…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) emerge throughout Physics as leaky/resonant modes that remain however highly localized. They have attracted much attention in Optics and Photonics, and especially in metasurfaces, i.e. planar arrays of…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are exotic optical topological singularities that defy the typical radiation within the continuum of radiative modes and carry topological polarization vortices in momentum space. Enabling ultrahigh…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are quantum states that remain localized despite existing within a continuum of extended, delocalized states. They defy conventional wave theories and could be instrumental for quantum technologies that…

We propose a new paradigm for realizing bound states in the continuum (BICs) by engineering the environment of a system to control the number of available radiation channels. Using this method, we demonstrate that a photonic crystal slab…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-17 Alexander Cerjan , Chia Wei Hsu , Mikael C. Rechtsman

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

We propose a realistic semiconductor system containing bound states in the continuum (BICs) which allows for a practical realization. By varying the confinement strength of excitons in cuprous oxide quantum wells, we show that long-lived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Angelos Aslanidis , Jörg Main , Patric Rommel , Stefan Scheel , Pavel A. Belov

Higher-order topological insulators are a recently discovered class of materials that can possess zero-dimensional localized states regardless of the dimension of the lattice. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that the topological…

Optical bound states in the continuum (BIC) are peculiar topological states that, when realized in a planar photonic crystal lattice, are symmetry-protected from radiating in the far field despite lying within the light cone, i.e., in the…

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…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are trapped or guided modes with frequencies in radiation continua. They are associated with high-quality-factor resonances that give rise to strong local field enhancement and rapid variations in…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-26 Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

We demonstrate a robust scheme for quantum information storage based on bound states in a two-dimensional coupled-cavity array. When a target cavity is tuned to resonance with the array, a bound state in the continuum (BIC) emerges,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Heng-Na Xiong , Da-Wei Ye , Yang Yang , Hongli Zhu , Yixiao Huang , Stefano Longhi , Fanxin Liu

In this study, we investigate a novel "dimerized" dielectric metasurface featuring dual-mode resonances governed by symmetry-protected bound states in the continuum (BICs). The metasurface design offers advantages such as insensitivity to…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-21 Maryam Ghahremani , Carlos J. Zapata-Rodríguez