Optical nanoresonators

TL;DR

This review comprehensively analyzes classical and modern approaches to open optical nanoresonators, focusing on phenomena like bound states, anapole states, and high-Q modes, with implications for various nanophotonic applications.

Contribution

It provides a detailed synthesis of the physics, properties, and potential applications of open optical nanoresonators, highlighting recent advances and fundamental phenomena.

Findings

Analysis of bound states in continuum

Discussion of high-Q supercavity modes

Potential applications in nanophotonics

Abstract

The review presents an analysis and generalization of classical and most modern approaches to the description and development of operation of open optical nanoresonators, that is, resonators all sizes of which are smaller than the resonant wavelength of radiation in a vacuum. Particular attention is paid to the physics of such phenomena as bound states in a continuum, anapole states, supercavity modes, and perfect nonradiating modes with extremely high quality factors and localizations of electromagnetic fields. An analysis of the optical properties of natural oscillations in nanoresonators made of metamaterials is also presented in the review. The effects considered in this review, besides being of fundamental import can also find applications in the development of optical nanoantennas, nanolasers, biosensors, photovoltaic devices, and nonlinear nanophotonics.