CAREER: Bound state in the continuum lasers.

摘要标题：连续介质激光器中的束缚态非技术描述：本CAREER项目的目标是首次研究和开发一种新型激光器，该激光器利用受早期量子力学理论工作启发的新型光约束方法。该方法可以“堵漏光腔”。通常通过减少光可以逃逸的通道的大小和数量来限制空腔损失，而空腔的设计产生破坏性干涉，当光被允许逃逸时，通过不同通道的多个波最终会相互抵消。发现能够实现新光学特性的新原理对光子学（光的科学）的进步至关重要。这些系统的应用包括用于通信、传感和成像的新型光源。这项基础和实验工作将研究使用工程和纳米结构材料创造这些来源。这种新型光源满足了光电器件的许多要求，包括占地面积小、功耗低和增强光-物质相互作用。该项目与严格的教育和推广活动相结合，包括培训纳米光子学专家，为学生提供课堂和实验室培训，面向从高中到研究生的弱势群体的推广活动（每年冬季研讨会），重点是退伍军人和非裔美国人。技术描述：光子学光源和激光器在科学技术中具有基础应用。新的物理原理的发现和实现使得前所未有的光学特性对光子系统的发展至关重要。提议的研究将调查连续体中的束缚态（BIC）的物理学，最初被认为是量子力学中的数学好奇心。BIC器件，特别是光源，可以通过设计光子系统中使用对称性考虑的光的衰减通道来设计和实现。BIC为构建具有独特光学响应的前所未有的光子腔、光源和系统提供了一个新的范例。这些系统的应用包括具有有趣偏振奇点的新型光源、表面激光、传感和芯片级通信。BIC激光器满足了许多光源的要求，包括可扩展性和低阈值。该项目的目标将通过结合设计、制造和表征非常规空腔的专业知识来实现。该研究将研究BIC激光器及其新物理特性。该多学科项目涵盖了激光物理、纳米光子学、纳米制造和表征等领域。BIC激光器为光-物质相互作用的研究开辟了新的途径，因为它们与拓扑电荷具有内在的联系，并且代表了在光捕获，生物传感和量子信息领域备受追捧的天然矢量光束源。

Abstract title: Bound State in the Continuum LasersNontechnical description: The goal of this CAREER project is to investigate and develop for the first time a novel type of laser that exploits novel confinement method for light inspired by early theoretical works in quantum mechanics. The method can "plug leaky light cavities". Instead of limiting cavity losses the usual way by reducing the size and number of passages through which light can escape, the cavity's design produces destructive interferences that, when light is allowed to escape, the multiple waves that do so through different passages end up canceling each other. Discovering new principles that enable novel optical properties is crucial for the progress of photonics, the science of light. Applications of these systems include novel light sources for communication, sensing and imaging. This fundamental and experimental work will study the creation of those sources using engineered and nanostructured materials. The novel sources satisfy many requirements of photonics devices including small footprint, low power consumption and enhanced light-matter interaction. The project is integrated with rigorous educational and outreach activities, including training specialists in nanophotonics, classroom and laboratory training for students, outreach activities (annual winter workshop) towards underrepresented communities from high-school to graduate levels with emphasis on veterans and African-Americans.Technical description: Photonics sources and lasers have fundamental applications in science and technology. The discovery and implementation of new physical principle allowing unprecedented optical properties is paramount to the progress of photonic systems. The proposed research will investigate the physics of Bound State in the Continuum (BIC), initially believed to be a mathematical curiosity in quantum mechanics. BIC devices, especially sources, can be designed and implemented by engineering the decay channels of light in photonics systems using symmetry considerations. BIC offer a new paradigm in building unprecedented photonic cavities, sources and systems with unique optical responses. Applications of these systems include novel light sources with intriguing polarization singularities, surface lasers, sensing, and chip scale communications. BIC lasers satisfy many requirements for optical sources including scalability and low-threshold. The project objectives will be accomplished by combining expertise in design, fabrication, and characterization of unconventional cavities. The research will investigate BIC lasers and their new physics. The multidisciplinary project bridges the fields of laser physics, nanophotonics, nanofabrication and characterization. BIC lasers open new avenues in the study of light-matter interaction as they are intrinsically connected to topological charges and represent natural vector beam sources which are highly sought after in the fields of optical trapping, biological sensing, and quantum information.