• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 7, 1575 (2022)
Kaili Sun1、†, Hui Jiang1、†, Dmitry A. Bykov2, Vien Van3, Uriel Levy4, Yangjian Cai1, and Zhanghua Han1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Devices, Center of Light Manipulation and Applications, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
  • 2Image Processing Systems Institute—Branch of the Federal Scientific Research Centre “Crystallography and Photonics” of Russian Academy of Sciences, Samara 443001, Russia
  • 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2V4, Canada
  • 4Department of Applied Physics, and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.456260 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Kaili Sun, Hui Jiang, Dmitry A. Bykov, Vien Van, Uriel Levy, Yangjian Cai, Zhanghua Han. 1D quasi-bound states in the continuum with large operation bandwidth in the ωk space for nonlinear optical applications[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(7): 1575 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The phenomenon of bound state in the continuum (BIC) with an infinite quality factor and lifetime has emerged in recent years in photonics as a new tool to manipulate light–matter interactions. However, most of the investigated structures only support BIC resonances at very few discrete points in the ωk space. Even when the BIC is switched to a quasi-BIC (QBIC) resonance through perturbation, its frequency will still be located within a narrow spectral band close to that of the original BIC, restricting their applications in many fields where random or multiple input frequencies beyond the narrow band are required. In this work, we demonstrate that a new set of QBIC resonances can be supported by using a special binary grating consisting of two alternatingly aligned ridge arrays with the same period and zero-approaching ridge width difference on a slab waveguide. These QBIC resonances are distributed continuously over a broad band along a line in the ωk space and can thus be considered as 1D QBICs. With the Q factors generally affected by the ridge difference, it is now possible to arbitrarily choose any frequencies on the dispersion line to achieve significantly enhanced light–matter interactions, facilitating many applications where multiple input wavelengths are required; e.g., sum or difference frequency generations in nonlinear optics.
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    Kaili Sun, Hui Jiang, Dmitry A. Bykov, Vien Van, Uriel Levy, Yangjian Cai, Zhanghua Han. 1D quasi-bound states in the continuum with large operation bandwidth in the ωk space for nonlinear optical applications[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(7): 1575
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