All-dielectric active photonics driven by bound states in the continuum
arXiv:1803.01992
Abstract
Recently emerged dielectric resonators and metasurfaces offer a low-loss platform for efficient manipulation of electromagnetic waves from microwave to visible. Such flat meta-optics can focus electromagnetic waves, generate structured beams and vortices, enhance local fields for sensing as well as provide additional functionalities for advanced MRI machinery. Recent advances are associated with exotic optical modes called bound states in the continuum, which can give rise to extremely large quality factors and supercavity lasing. Here, we experimentally demonstrate subwavelength active supercavities with extremely high-Q resonances that could be reconfigured at an ultrafast time scale. We reveal that such supercavities enable all-optical switching and modulation of extremely sharp resonances, and thus could have numerous applications in lasing, mode multiplexing, and biosensing.
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