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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…