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Quasi-bound states in the continuum (q-BICs) are resonant states of suitably tailored nanostructures with long optical lifetimes controlled by symmetry-breaking perturbations. While in planarized ultrathin devices the resulting Fano…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-24 Adam Overvig , Nanfang Yu , Andrea Alu

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

Quantum mechanics predicts that certain stationary potentials can sustain bound states with an energy buried in the continuous spectrum of scattered states, the so-called bound states in the continuum (BIC). Originally regarded as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Stefano Longhi , Giuseppe Della Valle

Light can be influenced by permittivity changes in optical resonators, enabling optical sensors, modulators and optical switches. It is straightforward that a high relative change of intensity per change of permittivity, labelled as figure…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-13 Maik Meudt , Chakan Bogiadzi , Kevin Wrobel , Patrick Görrn

Bound states in the continuum provide a remarkable example of how a simple problem solved about a century ago in quantum mechanics can drive the research on a whole spectrum of resonant phenomena in wave physics. Due to their huge radiative…

When two nonorthogonal resonances are coupled to the same radiation channel, avoided crossing arises and a bound state in the continuum (BIC) appears in parametric space. This paper presents numerical and analytical results on the…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-02 Sun-Goo Lee , Seong-Han Kim , Chul-Sik Kee

Photonic bound states in the continuum are spatially localised modes with infinitely long lifetimes that exist within a radiation continuum at discrete energy levels. These states have been explored in various systems where their emergence…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-07 Wenhui Wang , Antonio Günzler , Bodo D. Wilts , Matthias Saba

We study the effect of structural disorder on the transition from the bound states in the continuum (BICs) to quasi-BICs by the example of the periodic photonic structure composed of two layers of parallel dielectric rods. We uncover the…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are unusual solutions of wave equations describing light or matter: they are discrete and spatially bounded, but exist at the same energy as a continuum of states which propagate to infinity. Until…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-24 Bo Zhen , Chia Wei Hsu , Ling Lu , A. Doug Stone , Marin Soljacic

We present simple yet extremely accurate coupled-wave models describing the formation of bound states in the continuum (BICs) in 1D-periodic guided-mode resonant gratings (GMRGs) consisting of a slab waveguide layer with a binary grating…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-12 Dmitry A. Bykov , Evgeni A. Bezus , Leonid L. Doskolovich

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) theoretically have the ability to confine electromagnetic waves in limited regions with infinite radiative quality ($Q$) factors. However, in practical experiments, resonances can only exhibit finite $Q$…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-06 Sun-Goo Lee , Seong-Han Kim , Wook-Jae Lee

In the field of optics, bound state in the continuum (BIC) has been researched in many photonic crystals and periodic structures due to a strong resonance and an ultrahigh Q factor. Some designs of narrowband transmission filters, lasers,…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Yuhang Ruan , Jicheng Wang , Zheng-Da Hu , Yixiang Wang

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

In the last decade, symmetry-protected bound states in the continuum (BICs) have proven to be an important design principle for creating and enhancing devices reliant upon states with high quality (Q) factors, such as sensors, lasers, and…

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

Describing systems of superconducting atoms coupled to a continuum of photonic modes at multiple separated locations in a waveguide, waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED) with giant atoms has emerged as a promising platform for realizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Zong-Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An

Optical bound state in the continuum (BIC) is characterized by infinitely high quality factor resulting in drastic enhancement of light-matter interaction phenomena. We study the optical response of a one-dimensional photonic crystal slab…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 S. D. Krasikov , A. A. Bogdanov , I. V. Iorsh

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

We study bound states embedded into the continuum of edge states in two-dimensional topological insulators. These states emerge in the presence of a short-range potential of a structural defect coupled to the boundary. In this case the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Aleksei A. Sukhanov

Terahertz absorbers are crucial to the cutting-edge techniques in the next-generation wireless communications, imaging, sensing, and radar stealth, as they fundamentally determine the performance of detectors and cloaking capabilities. It…