Giant second-harmonic generation in photonic crystal slabs possessing double-resonance bound states in the continuum

The ability to confine and guide light makes photonic crystals (PhCs) a promising platform for large local field enhancement, which enables efficient nonlinear processes at the nanoscale. Here, we utilize optical bound states in the continuum (BICs) to engineer sharp resonances with high quality factors. By investigating the angleresolved reflection spectra, we demonstrate that two PhC slabs with different configuration but the same lattice constant support a pair of at-Γ and a pair of off-Γ resonances, respectively. In both cases, BIC-type resonances are observed at the fundamental frequency while BIC-like resonances are found at the second harmonic. This double-resonance phenomenon is subsequently used to significantly enhance the second-harmonic generation from PhC slabs. The maximum values of the SHG are several orders of magnitude larger than those corresponding to the reference slabs. We consider that our approach based on double-resonance BICs provides a novel way to realize enhanced harmonic generation in photonic nanodevices

Focusing MSs for High-Gain Antenna Applications

Recently, metasurfaces (MSs) have continuously drawn significant attentions in the area of enhancing the performances of the conventional antennas. Thereinto, focusing MSs with hyperbolic phase distributions can be used for designing high-gain antennas. In this chapter, we first design a new reflected MS and use a spiral antenna as the feeding source to achieve a wideband high-gain antenna. On this basis, we propose a bi-layer reflected MS to simultaneously enhance the gain and transform the linear polarization to circular polarization of the Vivaldi antenna. Then, we proposed a multilayer transmitted MS and use it to enhance the gain of a patch antenna. This kind of high-gain antenna eliminates the feed-block effect of the reflected ones but suffer from multilayer fabrication. To conquer this problem, we finally propose a single-layer transmitted focusing MS by grouping two different kinds of elements and use it to successfully design a low-profile high-gain antenna