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20222025
most citedAn achromatic metafiber for focusing and imaging across the entire telecommunication range

224 citations · 312 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Accessible, All-Polymer Metasurfaces: Low Effort, High Quality Factor

Michael Hirler, Alexander A. Antonov, Enrico Baù +4

Optical metasurfaces supporting resonances with high quality factors offer an outstanding platform for applications such as non-linear optics, light guiding, lasing, sensing, light…

physics.optics2025

A comparative analysis of plasmonic and dielectric metasurface sensing platforms powered by bound states in the continuum

Tao Jiang, Angana Bhattacharya, Martin Barkey +5

Nanophotonic platforms based on surface-enhanced infrared absorbance spectroscopy (SEIRAS) have emerged as an effective tool for molecular detection. Sensitive nanophotonic sensors…

physics.optics2025

Spatially Encoded Polaritonic Ultra-Strong Coupling in Gradient Metasurfaces with Epsilon-Near-Zero Modes

Enrico Bau, Andreas Aigner, Jonas Biechteler +4

We introduce a platform to achieve ultra-strong coupling (USC) between light and matter using widely available materials. USC is a light-matter interaction regime characterized by…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Temporally symmetry-broken metasurfaces for ultrafast resonance creation and annihilation

Andreas Aigner, Thomas Possmayer, Thomas Weber +3

Active metasurfaces, compact platforms for nanoscale light manipulation, are transforming technologies like holography, quantum cryptography, and optical computing. Despite their v…

physics.optics2024

Polarization-independent metasurfaces based on bound states in the continuum with high Q-factor and resonance modulation

Xingye Yang, Alexander Antonov, Andreas Aigner +5

Metasurfaces offer a powerful platform for effective light manipulation, which is crucial for advanced optical technologies. While designs of polarization-independent structures ha…

physics.optics2024

Revealing mode formation in quasi-bound states in the continuum metasurfaces via near-field optical microscopy

Thorsten Gölz, Enrico Baù, Andreas Aigner +5

Photonic metasurfaces offer exceptional control over light at the nanoscale, facilitating applications spanning from biosensing, and nonlinear optics to photocatalysis. Many metasu…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Continuous spectral and coupling-strength encoding with dual-gradient metasurfaces

Andreas Aigner, Thomas Weber, Alwin Wester +2

Enhancing and controlling light-matter interactions is crucial in nanotechnology and material science, propelling research on green energy, laser technology, and quantum cryptograp…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Active Loss Engineering in Vanadium Dioxide Based BIC Metasurfaces

Andreas Aigner, Filip Ligmajer, Katarína Rovenská +5

Metasurfaces have unlocked significant advancements across photonics, yet their efficient active control remains challenging. The active materials required often lack continuous tu…

physics.optics2022

Mirror-coupled plasmonic bound states in the continuum for tunable perfect absorption

Juan Wang, Thomas Weber, Andreas Aigner +2

Tailoring critical light-matter coupling is a fundamental challenge of nanophotonics, impacting diverse fields from higher harmonic generation and energy conversion to surface-enha…

physics.optics2022★ 78 cited

Permittivity-asymmetric quasi-bound states in the continuum

Rodrigo Berté, Thomas Weber, Leonardo de S. Menezes +7

Broken symmetries lie at the heart of nontrivial physical phenomena. Breaking the in-plane geometrical symmetry of optical systems allows to access a set of electromagnetic states…

physics.optics2022★ 4 cited

Plasmonic Bound States in the Continuum to Tailor Light-Matter Coupling

Andreas Aigner, Andreas Tittl, Juan Wang +4

Plasmon resonances play a pivotal role in enhancing light-matter interactions in nanophotonics, but their low-quality factors have hindered applications demanding high spectral sel…

physics.optics2022★ 224 cited

An achromatic metafiber for focusing and imaging across the entire telecommunication range

Haoran Ren, Jaehyuck Jang, Chenhao Li +6

Dispersion engineering is essential to the performance of most modern optical systems including fiber-optic devices. Even though the chromatic dispersion of a meter-scale single-mo…