Silicon slot metasurface supporting a multitude of bound states in the continuum: theoretical and experimental studies

Nousios, G., Algorri, J.F., Fuscaldo, W., Dell’Olio, F., Romano, S., Zito, G., Miranda, B., Ding, Y., Dmitriev, V., Andreani, L.C., Galli, M., Tsilipakos, O., Kriezis, E.E., Zografopoulos, D.C. (2025) Optics and Laser Technology

A dielectric metasurface supporting a variety of quasi-bound states in the continuum (qBICs), including the intricate dark toroidal dipole and toroidal quadrupole Mie modes, is theoretically and experimentally investigated in the near-infrared. The metasurface consists of square slots etched into a thin silicon layer and periodically arrayed in a subdiffractive lattice residing on a sapphire substrate. The modal properties of the qBICs, i.e., the quality factors alongside the near- and far-field characteristics…

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