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physics.optics2026

Shaping Near Fields of Photonic Modes into Topological Textures

Jonas Biechteler, Michael Hirler, Connor Heimig +5

Topological textures of light, such as optical vortices and skyrmions, are attractive for high-density information encoding and light-matter interactions. In the near field, topolo…

physics.optics2026

Dual-Gradient Plasmonic qBIC Metasurface for Time-Resolved In Situ Optimization of Molecular Vibrational Sensing in Water

Tao Jiang, Michael Hirler, Lina Rohrer +8

Metaphotonic platforms based on quasi-bound states in the continuum (qBICs), harnessing strong near-field enhancement and deeply subwavelength field confinement, provide a versatil…

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.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

Pixelated high-Q metasurfaces for in-situ biospectroscopy and AI-enabled classification of lipid membrane photoswitching dynamics

Martin Barkey, Rebecca Büchner, Alwin Wester +9

Nanophotonic devices excel at confining light into intense hot spots of the electromagnetic near fields, creating unprecedented opportunities for light-matter coupling and surface-…

physics.optics2023

Metallic and All-Dielectric Metasurfaces Sustaining Displacement-Mediated Bound States in the Continuum

Luca M. Berger, Martin Barkey, Stefan A. Maier +1

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are localized electromagnetic modes within the continuous spectrum of radiating waves. Due to their infinite lifetimes without radiation losses…

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…