Extreme light confinement mediated by the transverse Kerker effect
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| author | Gladyshev, Sergei Heimig, Connor Valero, Adrià Canós Gryb, Dmytro Jiang, Tao Bhattacharya, Angana Schulz, Sebastian A. Banzer, Peter Tittl, Andreas Weiss, Thomas |
| author_facet | Gladyshev, Sergei Heimig, Connor Valero, Adrià Canós Gryb, Dmytro Jiang, Tao Bhattacharya, Angana Schulz, Sebastian A. Banzer, Peter Tittl, Andreas Weiss, Thomas |
| contents | Dielectric nanoparticles can be engineered to scatter light predominantly in the transverse direction, a phenomenon known as the transverse Kerker effect. Although complete cancelation of forward scattering from a single object is forbidden by the optical theorem, we show that a single photonic mode can nonetheless realize an ideal transverse Kerker effect. The mode remains dark under normal incidence but evolves into an accidental bound state in the continuum when the nanoparticles are arranged in metasurfaces. This enables a new route to polarization-independent quasi-bound states in the continuum whose quality factors are tunable without symmetry breaking. We experimentally demonstrate our concept in the visible, achieving the first polarization-independent bound state in the continuum without the need for Brillouin-zone folding. Furthermore, we show that our modes maintain large quality factors over a substantially broader region of momentum space than conventional bound states in the continuum. Our results establish a platform for realizing ultranarrow resonances free of the constraints for designs with standard bound states in the continuum. |
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| spellingShingle | Extreme light confinement mediated by the transverse Kerker effect Gladyshev, Sergei Heimig, Connor Valero, Adrià Canós Gryb, Dmytro Jiang, Tao Bhattacharya, Angana Schulz, Sebastian A. Banzer, Peter Tittl, Andreas Weiss, Thomas Optics Dielectric nanoparticles can be engineered to scatter light predominantly in the transverse direction, a phenomenon known as the transverse Kerker effect. Although complete cancelation of forward scattering from a single object is forbidden by the optical theorem, we show that a single photonic mode can nonetheless realize an ideal transverse Kerker effect. The mode remains dark under normal incidence but evolves into an accidental bound state in the continuum when the nanoparticles are arranged in metasurfaces. This enables a new route to polarization-independent quasi-bound states in the continuum whose quality factors are tunable without symmetry breaking. We experimentally demonstrate our concept in the visible, achieving the first polarization-independent bound state in the continuum without the need for Brillouin-zone folding. Furthermore, we show that our modes maintain large quality factors over a substantially broader region of momentum space than conventional bound states in the continuum. Our results establish a platform for realizing ultranarrow resonances free of the constraints for designs with standard bound states in the continuum. |
| title | Extreme light confinement mediated by the transverse Kerker effect |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15861 |