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Anisometric Dielectric Snowman-Particle Provides Improved Control Over Photonic Hook
Yu. E. Geints, I. V. Minin, O. V. Minin
A novel efficient method for controlling photonic hook (PH) with an anisotropic dielectric microparticle dimer in the snowman-particle configuration is introduced and numerically j…
Photonic Jet with Tunable Focus Based on Water Droplets Freezing from the Outside In
Oleg V. Minin, Song Zhou, Igor V. Minin
Water droplets are a perspective highly abundant phase-change material to realize tunable optical lenses. We demonstrated for the first time that freezing mesoscale water droplet c…
Future green technology: freezing water micro-droplet as an all-optical switch based on time domain photonic hook
Oleg V. Minin, Yinghui Cao, Igor V. Minin
Here we show that mesoscale freezing water droplet with low Bond number can behave as fully biocompatible natural microlenses to form the photonic hook in application to tunable op…
Photonic Hook with Modulated Bending Angle Formed by Using Triangular Mesoscale Janus Prisms
Wei-Yu Chen, Cheng-Yang Liu, Yu-Kai Hsieh +2
In this study, we propose a novel design of the triangular mesoscale Janus prisms for the generation of the long photonic hook. The numerical simulations based on the finite-differ…
Multi-directional cloak design by all dielectric unit-cell optimized structure
Muratcan Ayik, Hamza Kurt, Oleg V. Minin +2
In this manuscript, we demonstrate the design and experimental proof of an optical cloaking structure which multi-directionally conceals a perfectly electric conductor (PEC) object…
Highly curved reflective W-shape and J-shape photonic hook induced by light interaction with partially coated microfluidic channels
Lingya Yu, Zengbo Wang, Lizhou Xu +6
Photonic hook (PH) is a new type of artificial self-bending beam focused by a dielectric particle-lens with a curved waist smaller than the wavelength, which has the potential to r…
Cascades of Fano Resonances in Scattering by a Mesoscale Spherical Particle in the Superresonance Mode
Igor V. Minin, Song Zhou, Oleg V. Minin
Broadband light illumination of a mesoscale dielectric sphere makes it possible to reveal new effects that associated with super resonance mode. These include the possibility of ge…
Super-resonance effect for high-index sphere immersed in water
Igor V. Minin, Song Zhou, Oleg V. Minin
Recently, we showed that dielectric mesoscale spheres support super-resonance effect, i.e. high-order Mie resonance modes with giant field enhancement. The presence of the surround…
Influence of the Environment on the Effect of Super Resonance in Mesoscale Dielectric Spheres
Igor V. Minin, Song Zhou, Oleg V. Minin
Dielectric mesoscale spheres have aroused strong interest because of their potential to localize light at deep subwavelength volume and to yield extremal internal magnetic and/or e…
The super resonance effect paves the way for a new type of refractive index sensor concept based on a mesoscale dielectric sphere
Oleg V. Minin, Igor V. Minin, Song Zhou
Recently, we showed that dielectric mesoscale spheres could support so-called super-resonance effect, i.e. high-order Mie resonance modes with giant field localization and enhancem…
Enhanced optical trapping assisted by resonant energy backflow in a perforated dielectric microsphere
Yury E. Geints, Igor V. Minin, Oleg V. Minin
Optical energy flow inside a dielectric microsphere exposed to an optical wave is usually codirected with its wave vector. At the same time, if the optical field in a microparticle…
Magnetic hot-spots generation at optical frequencies in all-dielectric mesoscale Janus particles
Oleg V. Minin, Song Zhou, Igor V. Minin
At optical frequencies due to the small value of the magnetic permeability of natural materials, the magnetic effects are week. To this end, the natural dielectric materials are un…
Subwavelength field localization based on dielectric mesoscale particle with single and blind nanohole array
Oleg V. Minin, Song Zhou, Yinghui Cao +2
Some new unusual physical phenomena and effects associated with dielectric mesoscale particles with Mie size parameter near 10 were studied and have been discovered during the last…
Whispering-gallery modes promote enhanced optical backflow in a perforated dielectric microsphere
Yury E. Geints, Igor V. Minin, Oleg V. Minin
Optical energy flow inside a dielectric microsphere is usually codirected with the optical wavevector. At the same time, if the optical field in a microsphere is in resonance with…
Optical phenomena in mesoscale dielectric three- and two- dimensional structures
I. V. Minin, O. V. Minin
During the last decade, new unusual physical phenomena in studies on the optics of dielectric mesoscale particles of arbitrary three dimensional shape and gratings with Mie size pa…
In-plane subwavelength near field optical capsule for lab-on-a-chip optical nano-tweezer
Oleg V. Minin, Shuo-Chih Chien, Wei-Yu Chen +2
In this letter, we propose a new proof-of-concept of optical nano-tweezer on the basis of a pair of dielectric rectangular rods capable of generating a novel class of controlled fi…
Talbot photolithography optimization with engineered hybrid metal-dielectric mask: High-contrast and highly-uniform Talbot stripes
Yu. E. Geints, I. V. Minin, O. V. Minin
Conventional projection Talbot lithography usually employs opaque (amplitude) or transparent (phase) masks for creating a periodic array of Fresnel diffraction fringes in the photo…
Near-field light-bending photonic switch: physics of switching based on three-dimensional Poynting vector analysis
Liyang Yue, Zengbo Wang, Bing Yan +4
Photonic hook is a high-intensity bent light focus with a proportional curvature to the wavelength of the incident light. Based on this unique light-bending phenomenon, a novel nea…
Concept of miniature optical pressure sensor based on coupled WGMs in a dielectric microsphere
Yu. E. Geints, I. V. Minin, O. V. Minin
We present the physical concept and sample engineering design of a new miniature pressure sensor based on the whispering gallery modes (WGMs) optically excited in a dielectric micr…
Photonic Lenses with Whispering Gallery Waves at Janus Particles
Igor V. Minin, Oleg V. Minin, Yinghui Cao +3
We show that electric field on the plane surface of truncated sphere or cylinders (so called Janus particles) have sharp resonances versus the depth of removed segment of a sphere…
Specular-reflection photonic hook generation under oblique illumination of a super-contrast dielectric microparticle
Yu. E. Geints, A. A. Zemlyanov, I. V. Minin +1
The possibility of overcoming the critical condition for localized photonic nanojet upon plane optical wave diffraction at mesoscale dielectric particle, which is commonly known as…
Super-enhancement focusing of Teflon sphere
Liyang Yue, Zengbo Wang, Bing Yan +5
A Teflon (Polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE) sphere can be used as a focusing lens in the applications of imaging and sensing due to its low-loss property in the terahertz (THz) band.…
Concept of photonic hook scalpel generated by shaped fiber tip with asymmetric radiation
Igor V. Minin, Oleg V. Minin, Yan-Yu Liu +1
Structured light have made deep impacts on modern biotechnology and clinical practice, with numerous optical systems and lasers currently being used in medicine to treat disease. W…
Experimental verification of a plasmonic hook in a dielectric Janus particle
Igor V. Minin, Oleg V. Minin, Igor A. Glinskiy +5
We report on a very first experimental observation of a new curved plasmonic beam, a plasmonic hook (PH), for surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves. We demonstrate that the SPP PH…