Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) have enabled far-reaching nanophotonic applications in high-harmonic generation, biospectroscopy, and lasing, among others. BIC-based metasurfaces with tailored structural asymmetry have empowered these advances, but still face constraints related to large metasurface footprints, the need for complex polarization states, or fabrication limits requiring constant resonator heights throughout the structure. In this talk, I will present two directions for obtaining additional photonic functionalities in such systems: the arrangement of BIC-based unit cells in semi-infinite radial configurations for polarization invariance and reduced footprints as well as height-driven BICs leveraging resonators with different thicknesses as an additional degree of freedom for resonance engineering.
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