Proceedings Article | 3 October 2022
KEYWORDS: Magneto-optics, Switching, Molybdenum, Magnetism, Switches, Silicon, Physics, Photonics, Optical spheres, Optical filters
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) emerge throughout Physics as leaky/resonant modes that remain, however, highly localized[1]. They have attracted much attention in Photonics, and especially in metasurfaces[2,3]. One of their most outstanding features is their divergent Q-factors, indeed arbitrarily large upon approaching the BIC condition (quasi-BICs) [4,5]. Here we investigate how to tune quasi-BICs in magneto-optic (MO) all-dielectric metasurfaces. The impact of the applied magnetic field in the BIC parameter space is revealed for a metasurface consisting of Si spheres with MO response. Through our coupled electric/magnetic dipole formulation, the MO activity is found to manifest itself through the interference of the (MO-induced) out-of-plane electric/magnetic dipole resonances with the in-plane magnetic/electric (directly induced) dipole, leading to a rich, magnetically-tuned quasi-BIC phenomenology, resembling the behavior of Brewster quasi-BICs for tilted vertical-dipole resonant metasurfaces. Such resemblance underlies our proposed design for a fast MO switch of a Brewster quasi-BIC by simply reversing the driving magnetic field. This MO-active BIC behavior is further confirmed in the optical regime for a realistic YIG nanodisk metasurface through numerical calculations. Our results present various mechanisms to magneto-optically manipulate BICs and quasi-BICs, which could be exploited throughout the electromagnetic spectrum with applications in lasing, filtering, and sensing [6].
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