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20132022
most citedPhotonic hook -- a new type of subwavelength self-bending structured light beams: a tutorial review

10 citations · 17 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.optics2022

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…

physics.optics2022

Generation of S-shaped photonic hooks from microcylinders with engineered surface patches

Chu Xu, Fen Tang, Qingqing Shang +8

Photonic hooks (PHs) are non-evanescent light beams with a highly concentrated curved optical fields. Since their discovery, PHs always have one single inflection point and thus ha…

physics.optics2022

Optical super-resonances in dielectric microsphere particles

Zengbo Wang, Boris Lukyanchuk, Baidong Wu +5

Extreme field localization and giant field enhancement are often achieved by using plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials such as strongly coupled silver nanoparticles.Dielectr…

physics.optics20212 cited

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…

physics.optics2021

Roadmap for label-free imaging with microsphere superlens and metamaterial solid immersion lens

Zengbo Wang, Boris Luk'yanchuk, Limin Wu

In 2011, super-resolution imaging by microsphere superlens was emerged as a simple yet effective method to overcome the diffraction limit that limits the resolution of conventional…

physics.optics20212 cited

Confining photonic nanojet in a microwell on microsphere lens for highly efficient light focusing, signal amplification and quantitative detection

Pengcheng Zhang, Bing Yan, Guoqiang Gu +4

Dielectric microspheres or microbeads can squeeze light into the subwavelength scale via photonic nanojet (PNJ) focusing. This enables strong light-matter interactions within its f…