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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.optics2026

Orbital Angular Momentum Locking via Bound States in the Continuum

Enrico Baù, Connor Heimig, Jonas Biechteler +6

Optical vortices are electromagnetic fields twisting around a phase singularity, resulting in quantized orbital angular momentum (OAM). When such vortices are formed by evanescent…

physics.optics2025

Integration of 2D Materials in Radial van der Waals Heterostructure Metasurfaces

Connor Heimig, Jonas Biechteler, Cristina Cruciano +12

Two-dimensional semiconductors, such as monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC), exhibit strong excitonic transitions at room temperature and offer a unique platform for…

physics.optics2025

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.optics2024

Chiral Nonlinear Polaritonics with van der Waals Metasurfaces

Connor Heimig, Alexander A. Antonov, Dmytro Gryb +10

In the strong-coupling regime, the interaction between light and matter reaches a hybridization state where the photonic and material components are inseparably linked. Using tailo…