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Bound states in the continuum (BICs), known for their theoretically infinite quality (Q) factors and strong field localization, hold great promise for high-performance photonic devices. However, conventional true BICs typically rely on…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-25 Yiyun Yan , Yichao Liu , Fei Sun , Yuxin Zhou

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are waves that remain localized even though they coexist with a continuous spectrum of radiating waves that can carry energy away. Their very existence defies conventional wisdom. Although BICs were…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-06 Yu Peng , Shaolin Liao

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 counter-intuitive way and the far-field radiation of photonic structures…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-30 Meng Kang , Tao Liu , C. T. Chan , Meng Xiao

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have been extensively exploited to enhance light--matter interactions in metamaterials, yet their emergence and utility in multi-atom waveguide platforms remain far less explored. Here we study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Xiang Guo , Xiaojun Zhang , Mingzhu Weng , Qian Bin , Hao-di Liu , Hai-Jun Xing , Xin-You Lü , Zhihai Wang

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) are shown to exist in a single-level Fano-Anderson model with a colored interaction between the discrete state and a tight-binding continuum, which may describe mesoscopic electron or photon transport in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Longhi

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are an excellent platform enabling highly efficient light-matter interaction in applications for lasing, nonlinear generation, and sensing. However, the current focus in implementing BICs has primarily…

We introduce a method for effectively identifying bound states in the continuum (BICs) - notably without computing the imaginary part of the eigenvalues - thereby simplifying the modeling and potentially reducing computation time. In real,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Vincent Laude , David Röhlig

We theoretically investigate and experimentally demonstrate that genuine bound states in the continuum (BICs) -- polarization-protected BICs -- can be completely localized within finite-size solid resonators. This bound mode is realized in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Yeongtae Jang , Seokwoo Kim , Dongwoo Lee , Eunho Kim , Junsuk Rrho

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are quantum states with normalizable wave functions and energies that lie within the continuous spectrum for which extended or dispersive states are also available. These special states, which have shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Ricardo Y. Díaz-Bonifaz , Carlos Ramírez

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) defy conventional wisdom that assumes a spectral separation between propagating waves, that carry energy away, and spatially localized waves corresponding to discrete frequencies. They can be described…

Bound-states-in-the-continuum (BIC)is a wave-mechanical concept that generates resonances with vanishing spectral linewidths. It has many practical applications in Optics, such as narrow-band filters, mirror-less lasing, and nonlinear…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) refer to physical states that possess intrinsic zero dissipation loss even though they are located in the continuous energy spectrum. BICs have been widely explored in optical and acoustic structures,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Yue Yu , Xiang Xi , Xiankai Sun

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is an unusual localized state that is embedded in a continuum of extended states. Here, we present the general condition for BICs to arise from wave equation separability and show that the directionality…

The question of how to continuously manipulate a photonic system between a radiating state and a bound state is an important challenge in photonics, as its solution promises broad technological relevance for optical sensors, modulators,…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Andreas Henkel , Maik Meudt , Maximilian Buchmüller , Patrick Görrn

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…

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

This paper presents a rigorous mathematical analysis for symmetry-based Bound States in the Continuum (BICs) in optical waveguide arrays. Different from existing research, we consider a finite system of horizontally and equidistantly…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-25 Xin Feng , Wei Wu

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are localized electromagnetic modes within the continuous spectrum of radiating waves. Due to their infinite lifetimes without radiation losses, BICs are driving research directions in lasing, non-linear…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-02 Luca M. Berger , Martin Barkey , Stefan A. Maier , Andreas Tittl

Electromagnetic embedded eigenstates, also known as bound states in the continuum (BICs), hold a great potential for applications in sensing, lasing, enhanced nonlinearities and energy harvesting. However, their demonstrations so far have…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Rasmus E. Jacobsen , Alex Krasnok , Samel Arslanagic , Andrei V. Lavrinenko , Andrea Alu

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a localized state of an open structure with access to radiation channels, yet it remains highly confined with, in theory, infinite lifetime and quality factor. There have been many realizations of…

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